LAKEPORT — Attorneys and defendants agreed to continue an attempted murder trial Monday to October, a year and six days after the alleged offense.
Thomas Loyd Dudney of Fulton and Joshua Isaac Wandrey of Rohnert Park allegedly shot, tortured and hogtied Ronald Greiner Oct. 20 at the Lakeport man”s home on South Main Street behind the Record-Bee building.
Doug Rhoades, public defender for Dudney, filed a motion to suppress evidence to which District Attorney Jon Hopkins responded with a motion to continue.
Stephen Carter, public defender for Wandrey, also asked for a continuance of the trial in order to better prepare for the prosecution”s computer analysis evidence.
Rhoades said he filed the motion based on a lack of probable cause on the arrest and search.
Hopkins said he wasn”t given adequate notice to respond to the motion to suppress.
Dudney and Wandrey are charged with premeditated attempted murder, aggravated mayhem, torture, home invasion robbery in concert with another, first-degree burglary, assault with a firearm, assault with a blunt force object, assault likely to produce great bodily injury, serious battery, simple mayhem and participating in the criminal street gang, the Misfits.
Three of the 11 charges carry life sentences. Special allegations that the crimes were committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang, that great bodily injury was inflicted and use of a firearm accompany the charges.
The District Attorney”s Office had filed another case against Dudney and two other co-defendants, Joseph Henri Deshetres and Cheryl Ann Reese, on charges of intimidating a witness and participating in a criminal street gang with special allegations that the crimes were committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang. The charges with special allegations carried a life sentence.
The office alleged that Deshetres, Dudney and Reese conspired in November to intimidate a witness in the attempted murder case against Dudney.
Hopkins offered a settlement in June to Deshetres and Reese, which they took, pleading guilty to misdemeanor attempting to intimidate a witness as aides and abettors. Hopkins dropped the charges of intimidating a witness cases against Dudney.
Dudney and Wandrey will return to court 9 a.m. Sept. 8 for a motion hearing to suppress evidence and 8:15 a.m. Sept. 3 for trial assignment for the hearing.
A settlement conference and trial readiness conference is set for Oct. 13. The pair will appear in court Oct. 22 for trial assignment and Oct. 26 for their jury trial. They remain in custody at the Lake County Jail on a no-bail hold.
Contact Katy Sweeny at kdsweeny@gmail.com or call her directly at 263-5636, ext. 37.
