Motions filed in Oakhill Renaissance Place conspiracy case

CLEVELAND — The attorney for Martin Yavorcik, one of three indicted in the Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal conspiracy case, filed a motion to dismiss the charges contending he hasn’t received a speedy trial.

Jennifer Scott, Yavorcik’s attorney, wrote in a motion electronically filed at 9:49 p.m. Monday with the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court that the case should be dismissed as there was an 855-day delay from the date of the dismissal of the original indictment on July 11, 2011, to the second indictment this past May 15.

State law requires no more than 270 days between indictments and the start of a trial — it’s 90 days if a defendant is in jail — unless the defendant waives his right to a speedy trial.

Meanwhile, attorneys for Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally and Mahoning County Auditor Michael V. Sciortino, Yavorcik’s alleged co-conspirators, filed motions electronically shortly after 4 p.m. Monday asking Judge Janet R. Burnside to overrule a request by the state that the 270-day speedy trial time be delayed.

The 83-count indictment against the three, who say they are not guilty, accuses them of being involved in a conspiracy to impede the move of the county Department of Job and Family Services from the then-Cafaro-Co.-owned Garland Plaza on Youngstown’s East Side to Oakhill Renaissance Place, the former Forum Health Southside Medical Center.

McNally, accused of criminal acts in his former capacity as a county commissioner, and Sciortino are Democrats while Yavorcik is an independent who unsuccessfully ran for county prosecutor in 2008.

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