Hung Jury in COA Home Care Theft Trial
Middlesex DA will retry Kathryn Christopher for stealing $900,000 from Oliver Rd. resident.
The trial of the former Belmont Council on Aging home-care coordinator who was indicted for allegedly stealing $900,000 from an elderly Oliver Road dementia victim ended in a hung jury Nov. 2 in Middlesex County Superior Court. A jury could not come to a consensus verdict after a two week trial in Superior Court Judge Merita A. Hopkins' courtroom on the charges of larceny of a person over 60 over $250 and three counts of obtaining a signature by false pretense against Kathryn Christopher, 65, of Everett, according to a spokesperson for Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone. Despite the setback, Leone's office told the court it will retry Christopher on the charges. The next court date for Christopher – who is out on – will be Nov. 20 …
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