Yovorcik wants Oakhill interview statements to FBI ruled inadmissible

CLEVELAND

Martin Yavorcik, a defendant in the Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal-corruption case, asked a judge to dismiss charges against him that he contends are based on information he gave law enforcement.

In his first motion acting as his own attorney, Yavorcik wrote that prosecutors shouldn’t be permitted to use anything from those three interviews with the FBI and Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will, a special prosecutor in the first Oakhill trial, because he was told they wouldn’t use any statements made by him in those meetings as evidence.

The interviews were conducted March 10 and Dec. 4, 2010, and Feb. 5, 2011. The first Oakhill trial in Mahoning County went from July 2010 to July 2011, when it was dismissed with the ability to indict again. He along with Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally and ex-Mahoning County Auditor Michael V. Sciortino were indicted again May 14, 2014, in Cuyahoga County.

“Most of the evidence which defendant believes the state will try to offer in this trial came directly from defendant and was obtained under the terms” of being inadmissible, Yavorcik wrote.

If Judge Janet R. Burnside of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, who is overseeing the trial, won’t dismiss the charges, Yavorcik asked for a hearing.

Read more about the matter in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.