After earlier affirming that the Ray Shetler Jr. trial would be held as scheduled starting last Monday, Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio on Thursday formally granted a motion for continuance, but did not set a new trial date. In June, Shetler demanded that his trial be held as scheduled and threatened legal action if it was not. Nonetheless, the trial was moved to August, and now another request for continuance will delay it once again.
Shetler is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and single counts of disarming a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest for brawling with Westmoreland County detectives and state police who had tracked him to his girlfriend’s mobile home outside of Seward last December. He’d been sought since skipping a probation hearing. Both Shetler and a sheriff’s deputy suffered serious injuries in the fight.
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