Suspect now wants jury to hear his case
WILKES-BARRE — Jose A. Ramos’ Luzerne County trial on an alleged Megan’s Law violation has been pushed into the new year after the defendant requested his case be heard by a jury.
Ramos was arrested Nov. 7, 2012, for allegedly lying about where he planned to live after prison, just minutes after he was released from the State Correctional Institution at Dallas. Ramos served a 27-year sentence for molesting children in Erie County, Pa.
A bench trial in the case had been scheduled for Dec. 30 in Luzerne County Court. According to documents filed on Ramos’ behalf by attorney Thomas Marsilio, Ramos is now seeking a trial by jury, and requested a continuance because no jurors are scheduled to report during the week of Dec. 30.
Judge David W. Lupas granted the continuance in an order filed late Monday, scheduling a trial to begin at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 21.
Ramos, 70, has made national headlines for his links to the Etan Patz case in New York City. Patz, 6, disappeared in 1979. Ramos has been labeled a material witness in the case of Pedro Hernandez, 52, who stands accused of killing the boy. Ramos, once considered a suspect in the Patz case, had been dating the boy’s babysitter.
Ramos filed an appeal last month against an order directing him to testify in New York during the Hernandez trial, which is set for April 23. ..Source.. by Roger DuPuis
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