Mays Landing, NJ – a definite mayor of the city of Atlantic City Marty Small SR. He said on Monday that he was rejecting the confession in a matter of alleged assault on his daughter, who would force him to resign from office.
“Absolutely not,” said Small before the court salt after a brief trial before the Supreme Court judge Bernard Delury.
The proposed agreement required a tiny one to plead guilty for assaulting a third degree and avoid prison time. But the contract would require a tiny one to lose his chosen office, the prosecutor Atlantic told the judge.
Wife of Small, curator of La’quetta Small, is also accused in the case. The prosecutor said in court that she was offered an agreement on the allegation of a threat to second -degree children who would send her to prison for five years.
Her lawyer, Michael Schreiber, said they were rejecting this offer, but the negotiations would be pending.
Delury set the date of the trial for Marty Small on November 10, a week after the voters decide whether to return it, and on December 1 for La’quetta Small. Another interrogation was established on September 25.
Although the offers of the allegations were not formally rejected in court, Small and his lawyer left little doubts in court.
“It was rejected,” said Marty Small, Jordan Barbone.
The mayor resisted calls to consider going to the side, including the governor Phil Murphy.
Speaking in court, Barbone called the “politically motivated” case.
“The office is lost in no situation,” Barbone said. “In no situation we think it is proper prosecution.”
Marty Small is accused of a threat to second-degree children, an attack of a sharpened third degree and manipulation of witnesses-all of which can cause a maximum of 25 years in prison if he is convicted of all allegations.
The state of state would also require counseling and “lack of contact with the victim.”
Small easily won the main in June to become a democratic candidate for the mayor. In a very democratic Atlantic city, it would probably bring him a path to re -election, despite the allegations hanging over it.
Smalls have repeatedly accused in April 2024 of the physical abuse of their 14-year-old daughter in December and January, including one incident in which prosecutors claimed that the mayor knocked down his daughter with an unconscious with a broom and threatened that “land would” hit her stairs.
The prosecutor claimed that La’quetta Small hit her daughter “many times on the chest, lowering the bruises.” Another incident claimed that La’quetta Small, who remains at work as a superintendent, dragged her daughter by the hair, and then hit her with a belt on her shoulders, leaving traces.
In this case, Constance Days-Chapman, a family friend and director of Atlantic City High School, was also accused, which was arrested on March 28 for the accusation of not to report a report of the State Social Welfare Agency for allegations of using children. Days-Chapman is on a paid vacation and is waiting for a trial.
At that time, his daughter’s boyfriend told at an earlier court hearing that he recorded the alleged beating during a telephone conversation with his daughter’s consent. The judge ruled They are permissible at the trial.
