LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - A judge is set to hear arguments on whether a Maine teenager should be tried as an adult in a man’s death.
The Sun Journal reports next week’s hearing could last three days.
Prosecutors are seeking to try the defendant as an adult for manslaughter in the death of 38-year-old Donald Giusti, who died after the 2018 Lewiston fight.
The defendant was 17 at the time of a brawl that contributed to racial tension in Lewiston. Another teenager and a 23-year-old man were charged with misdemeanor assault.
The teen is being held at Androscoggin County Jail in Augusta. He was recently charged with assaulting a juvenile following an altercation at a youth detention center in South Portland.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.