Nathan Carman is also accused of killing his grandfather, John Chakalos, who prosecutors say was shot in his home in 2013 in Windsor, Conn.
Nathan Carman, a 28-year-old who has been living in Vernon, Vermont, faces life imprisonment if he's convicted of the murder on the high seas charge.
Earlier this month, Carman’s lawyers filed a motion seeking his release, saying the evidence against him is “tenuous at best” and he does not pose a flight risk or danger. The lawyers said Carman is willing to surrender his passport, submit to electronic monitoring and turn over all the money he has — $10,000 — to a third party or post some of that money as bail.
Prosecutors wrote in opposing Carman’s motion on Friday that “Many of the claims made by Carman in support of his request for release are misleading or mistaken.” “Carman’s motion for release fails to adequately address the risk of flight and similarly fails to address his dangerousness,” they wrote. “Moreover, the conditions of release he proposes would do little to mitigate these concerns.”They wrote in the motion for release that he has never attempted to threaten or influence a witness and has led a quiet life in Vernon for the last eight years with solid ties to the community.
The prosecutors say Carman is a flight risk because he is charged with an offense that carries a mandatory life sentence and has few connections that would encourage him to stay in this country. They wrote that the letters Carman submitted in support of him are primarily from people who knew him as a child.
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