BRIEFLY PROBATION ORDERED FOR ELDER ABUSE.LANCASTER - An unlicensed investigator working for an attorney in an elder-abuse case was sentenced Thursday to five years' probation and ordered to perform 500 hours of community service for intimidating in·tim·i·date tr.v. in·tim·i·dat·ed, in·tim·i·dat·ing, in·tim·i·dates 1. To make timid; fill with fear. 2. To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats. a witness. Tracy Hall Tracy Hall (1919-) is an American physical chemist who first synthesized diamond using a press of his own design. Early life Tracy Hall was born in Ogden, Utah in 1919. His full name is Howard Tracy Hall, but he often uses the name H. Tracy Hall or, simply, Tracy Hall. , 38, pleaded no contest earlier this month to a felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. count of witness intimidation Witness intimidation involves witnesses crucial to court proceedings being threatened in order to pressure or extort them not to testify. The refusal of key witnesses to testify commonly renders a case with inadequate physical evidence void in a court of law. . Hall also was ordered not to do any civil or criminal investigation work, court officials said. Hall worked as an investigator for the attorney representing a woman who was charged with swindling an 88-year-old man by pretending to be in love with him. Prosecutors said Hall was not licensed as an investigator. Hall was accused of pretending to be a friend of the victim to get into his board-and-care home to talk to him. - Daily News |
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