Narcy Novack Hearing Delayed In Hotel Heir Killings
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBS4) – There's been another delay in the New York case of a Fort Lauderdale woman accused of arranging the 2009 murders of her millionaire husband and mother-in-law.
The judge in the Narcy Novack case re-set the hearing to August 1st.
A visibly frustrated Novack insisted her lawyer complain to the judge about the delay. The lawyer did, but Novack continued speaking to him angrily during the federal court session in White Plains, N.Y.
According to her attorney Howard Tanner, Novack's co-defendant and brother, 57-year-old Cristobal Veliz, was appointed a new attorney who needs more time to review the case.
In addition, prosecutors are still deciding whether or not to seek the death penalty against the 53-year-old Novack.
Novack and her brother are both accused of hiring others to kill Bernice Novack in her Florida home in April 2009 and Ben Novack in his New York hotel room three months later.
If prosecutors decide to seek the death penalty, the defense will get to bring in additional attorneys, skilled in the law of capital punishment, to argue against the death penalty before a trial can begin. The process could take months which means the trial could get pushed to next year.
Ben Novack's father built the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach and prosecutors claim Narcy Novack was after her husband's $10 million estate. His mother's death added to his fortune.
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