Today Wendell Sheffield and John Lentine waived the preliminary hearing of Richard Shahan. The State will now place the case before a grand jury to determine if the facts merit an indictment.
“Regardless of whether probable cause was found or if it was not found, the case would be presented to a grand jury. So we felt under the circumstances that there was no point for a preliminary hearing,” Lentine said.
“We got some discovery from the state Monday, and our decision was not to have a preliminary hearing. The case was going to go to the grand jury no matter what we do,” Lentine added.
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