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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 8:14AM
Hartford Mayor Opposes Combining Cases
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HARTFORD, CT (AP) -- Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez is trying to keep allegations that he tried to extort $250,000 from a real estate developer separate from charges that he accepted a bribe.
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Perez is due in Superior Court on Wednesday on a prosecutor's motion to combine all the corruption charges into a single case.
Perez's lawyers, in a brief filed Monday, argue that consolidating the cases would mean a lengthy trial and therefore a jury of ``retirees, state workers or employees of large corporations.'' They say that would make it difficult for Perez to ``be judged in part by the minority community that he serves.''
Perez was arrested in January on the bribery charges and in September on the extortion-related charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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