Jury convicts Trumbull man of rape

WARREN — A man tried for rape, kidnapping and auto theft — who caused a stir several times this week — sat quietly and didn’t react when jurors rendered three guilty verdicts in the case today.

After deliberating seven hours, the jury said Richard Hadden, 56, of Dover Street Southwest is guilty of raping and kidnapping a woman in her South Street home on May 2, 2006, and stealing her car afterward.

Hadden had begun talking quietly to adeputy sheriff about winning on appeal as he waited for the jury to enter the room to render its verdict.

Hadden had been placed in an adjacent room next to the Trumbull County Common Pleas courtroom of Judge John M. Stuard a couple of times during the weeklong trial.

He disrupted the proceedings with his comments about the victim while she testified, and with remarks about assistant Prosecutor Mike Burnett during Hadden’s own testimony.

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