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Teen to be tried in neighbor's slaying [Pamela Vitale]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/18/6 | Henry K. Lee

Posted on 02/18/2006 10:28:39 AM PST by SmithL

Judge says sufficient evidence provided in preliminary hearing.

Scott Dyleski will stand trial for murder in the slaying of television commentator Daniel Horowitz's wife, a case that has drawn national attention since the prominent lawyer, while himself involved in a high-profile murder trial, found her body at their home in Lafayette in October.

After four days of testimony, Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Mary Ann O'Malley ruled Friday that prosecutor Harold Jewett had presented ample evidence that Dyleski, 17, probably killed his neighbor Pamela Vitale, 52, on Oct. 15.

Dyleski showed no emotion as O'Malley made her ruling in a Martinez courtroom. The youth, who has been charged as an adult, will be arraigned March 3 and may enter a plea again. He has previously pleaded not guilty.

"It appears to me that the offense of murder, as charged, has been committed and that there is sufficient cause to believe that Scott Dyleski is guilty," O'Malley said.

The judge also ordered Dyleski to stand trial on a charge that he possessed a deadly or dangerous weapon to bludgeon Vitale. O'Malley also agreed with the prosecution's decision to charge Dyleski as an adult.

Horowitz attended Friday's hearing but declined to comment.

Horowitz found his wife in the fetal position near the door of their mobile home in Hunsaker Canyon not far from where they were building a house. The discovery came as he was defending Susan Polk on charges that she killed her husband in their Orinda home in 2002. Polk is now defending herself and is to go on trial this month.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: danielhorowitz; dyleski; pamelavitale; susanpolk
Another case of too-much self-esteem.
1 posted on 02/18/2006 10:28:40 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

"Polk is now defending herself and is to go on trial this month."

What? Is she even an attorney? No public defender? This is very strange.


2 posted on 02/18/2006 10:38:56 AM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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This is very strange.

No Fooling!

Here's a search on Keyword SusanPolk.

3 posted on 02/18/2006 10:42:13 AM PST by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: SmithL
The local presstitutes reported that this slug's mother - burned some of her son's very incriminating items AFTER learning of the murder..

Unless she has made a deal with the prosecutors - she should stand charges for aiding and abetting after the fact.

Semper Fi
4 posted on 02/18/2006 11:09:07 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat

The mother did make a deal to testify against her son in exchange for having the Accessory after the Fact charges dropped.


5 posted on 02/18/2006 11:15:37 AM PST by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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