Moss trial may be delayed again
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[A motion hearing involving a request for additional funding for the defense of Raymond Moss was heard in Harrisburg Friday by Chief Judge Mark Clarke.
Moss is charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault, two counts of domestic battery and one count of unlawful restraint, according to warrants issued Jan. 25, 2011.
Moss' public defender, Fred Turner, filed a request for additional investigative fees in order to question witnesses who have apparently changed their stories about when the incident occurred. Several witnesses originally testified the event in question occurred at a time when, as it was later discovered, Moss was incarcerated.
According to Turner, after learning this, the witnesses apparently changed their stories and reported the incident took place on Sept. 18, 2010, at a time when Moss was not incarcerated.
Turner's request for additional fees and the possibility that the defense will not be ready to go to trial on Nov. 8, the date set for Moss' jury trial, was not looked upon kindly by Clarke, who seemed agitated by the apparent unpreparedness of the defense to move forward.
In the end, Clarke decided to give Turner until Oct. 12 to decide if the defense will be ready to go to trial in November or if he will be requesting a continuance.
The next hearing in the Raymond Moss saga is set for 10 a.m. Wed., Oct. 12.