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Written by DeadGirl
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Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
By Susan Morse
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SEABROOK - The owner of the Bayview Crematory is scheduled for a plea hearing on charges of theft and state inspection violations, Tuesday, April 4, at 8:30 a.m., in Rockingham County Superior Court.
The plea is expected to be no contest, according to Bayview’s attorney Gerard LaFlamme of Haverhill, Mass.
"There will never be a guilty plea," he said. "I’m hoping they (prosecutors) agree to a nolo (contendere) and a fine."
An agreement has yet to be reached with the Rockingham County attorney’s office, LaFlamme said.
Linda Stokes of Haverhill, Mass., Bayview’s owner, has given him power of attorney in the case, LaFlamme said.
The corporation, and not Stokes was indicted, according to LaFlamme. The corporation can serve no jail time.
Bayview Crematory LLC, 204 New Zealand Road, Seabrook, was originally scheduled for trial this past Tuesday, but the case was extended because of the change in plea.
Bayview was indicted in September on two felony counts of theft by deception and five misdemeanor counts of violation of a state statute requiring crematories to be inspected.
Felony theft charges allege Linda and her husband, Larry Stokes, schemed with Linda’s son and former Bayview owner Derek Wallace, to get paid for cremation services while operating Bayview illegally.
Bayview did not comply with state law, having never been inspected by the state, according to the indictment. Decedents allegedly were cremated without proper inspection or certification by a medical examiner.
Wallace, 35, also of Salisbury, Mass., ran two funeral homes in Salisbury and Lawrence, Mass. As a funeral director, he was barred, under Massachusetts law, from also owning a crematory. In 2002, he sold Bayview to his mother for $1.
Five misdemeanors claim decedents were cremated at Bayview before receiving a cremation certificate by a medical examiner.
Rockingham Deputy County Attorney Tom Reid, who is prosecuting the cases against Bayview, Wallace and two others involved, could not be reached for comment.
LaFlamme is representing Bayview only and provided no information on the other cases.
None of the attorneys for the three individuals indicted in the Bayview case could be reached for comment on whether plea deals are also expected there.
Employee James Fuller, 53, of Seabrook, was indicted on charges he copied the signature of a medical examiner to create cremation certificates.
Former Massachusetts medical examiner Putnam Breed, 67, of Hampton Falls, was indicted on charges he signed the certificates without viewing the bodies.
Breed is scheduled for trial on Feb. 13; Fuller on March 6; and Wallace on April 3, in Rockingham Superior Court.
Civil cases are also pending against Bayview.
Florida attorney David Charlip, who is representing an estimated 200 families, said the expected plea by Bayview will not help his case.
"That’s a criminal case, it doesn’t have anything to do with the civil case," Charlip said.
Court briefings are scheduled on cases pending in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, between March 1 and April 30, he said.
"The biggest problem we have now is the records are in the hands of the county attorney," Charlip said. "We cannot analyze the case further without the records."
County Attorney James Reams is not releasing the records until the criminal case is done, according to Charlip.
"We’re focusing our energies on the funeral homes, what they knew," he said.
Reams and N.H. State Police shut down Bayview last February, after they entered the building on a search warrant. They allegedly found a decomposing body in an unrefrigerated unit, 12 urns of unidentified ashes and boxes of business records.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/hampton/01272006/news/84973.htm |
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Taphophilia?
taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)
ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"
DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries
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