Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Circuit Court Judge Bruce Morrow denies a request for a reduction in Bob Bashara's $15 million cash-only bond.
Bob Bashara will remain in Wayne County Jail after Circuit Court Judge Bruce Morrow denied Bashara’s motion for a bond reduction Monday, according to a court document. (See Judge's official ruling in story images). Bashara’s attorney, Mark Kriger, requested his client’s bond be reduced from his current $15 million cash-only bond to $500,000 with a 10 percent provision, meaning Bashara would have paid $50,000 to be released until his case went to trial. Kriger also said his client was willing to put up an apartment building he owns in St. Clair Shores for collateral and other concessions like surrendering his passport and driver’s license. In his arguments Thursday, Kriger said that the current bond was unreasonable and only meant to keep …
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The judge heard arguments early Thursday in Third Circuit Court on a bond reduction request from Bob Bashara's attorney. Prosecutors oppose any change, saying his behavior since being in jail has continued to be of concern.
Bob Bashara will remain in custody pending the outcome of a brief hearing Thursday in Third Circuit Court in which his attorney requested a reduction in his $15 million cash-only bond to an amount he deems to be more reasonable. Judge Bruce Morrow will rule on the arguments heard Thursday by next Tuesday, Sept. 18, he said, declaring the brief hearing concluded after Bashara's attorney and prosecutors gave their reasons for and against a bond reduction. Bashara's attorney, Mark Kriger, requested the bond reduction in a motion filed earlier this week. Among his arguments is that the current bond is unreasonable and only meant to keep Bashara in custody for the duration of the case. Bashara is charged with solicitation to murder. He is …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Bob Bashara, who is accused of hiring a hitman to kill Joe Gentz, will make his next appearance in Third Circuit Court Thursday to ask the judge for a reduction in his bond.
Third Circuit Court Judge Bruce Morrow will consider a motion Thursday by Bob Bashara's attorney for a reduction in his $15 million cash only bond. The hearing is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Maria Miller, the spokeswoman for the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. Bashara is charged with solicitation of murder. He is accused of hiring a hitman to kill Joe Gentz while he was housed by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department on first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Gentz is accused in the January strangulation death of Jane E. Bashara, whose body was found in the backseat of her SUV in Detroit. Jane Bashara was an active Grosse Pointer who frequently volunteered with the schools when her children were …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
In a brief hearing early Thursday, attorneys and the judge handling Bob Bashara's solicitation of murder case set a November trial date and discussed procedural issues.
Bob Bashara, wearing a suit in Third Circuit Court early Thursday, continually wrote during his brief hearing--to the point the judge asked what he was doing. Bashara paused momentarily and answered the judge, saying he was making some notes for himself. That was essentially the only time he spoke, addressed the judge or looked at the judge. Bashara is charged wtih solicitation of murder. He is accused of paying someone to kill Joe Gentz, the man charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the strangulation death of Bashara's late wife, Jane Bashara. Gentz has told investigators that he was hired by Bashara to kill Jane Bashara. Bob Bashara was arrested five months after her body was found in Detroit on the …
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
During his first appearance with his new attorney, Bob Bashara waived the formal reading of his charges and entered a not guilty plea in Third Circuit Court early Tuesday.
In a brief hearing early Tuesday, Bob Bashara appeared before Judge Timothy M. Kenny and entered a not guilty plea on the single count of solicitation to murder. This was his second arraignment in Third Circuit Court in Detroit and his first appearance with his new attorney, Mark Kriger. The arraignment scheduled for last week was adjourned to Tuesday so Kriger could take over the case from attorney David Griem. Griem and Bashara both expressed an interest in discontinuing their relationship in the case in 36th District Court last month but a judge ordered Griem to remain on the case and to help with the transition to a new attorney. Bashara is charged with hiring a hitman to kill Joe Gentz, the man who is accused of killing Bashara's wife…
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Grosse Pointe Park investigators will be able to gather a handwriting sample from Bob Bashara without his attorney present after a ruling was issued Wednesday.
One week after attorney David Griem argued to be present for the gathering of a handwriting sample from his client Bob Bashara, a Third Circuit Court Judge denied the request. Judge Timothy Kenny denied Griem's request Wednesday during a brief hearing, during which he explained Griem is not legally entitled to be present since Bashara is not under arrest, Kenny's court clerk told Patch Wednesday. Bashara has been identified as a "person of interest" in the strangulation death of his wife of 27 years, Jane E. Bashara. The couple was well known within the Grosse Pointes and her unexpected, violent death was a shock to the normally quiet and low-crime suburb of Detroit. Jane Bashara's body was found in the back of her SUV in January in …
darylatchison
2:43 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
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