Crime & Safety
Trial Dates Postponed for 3 Charged With Murder
Two defendants in the Colin Nutter case will go to trial in August. A third is set for September.
The trial date for all three defendants in the Colin Nutter murder case have been pushed back.
Originally set to go to trial on Monday, Judge Victoria Rossetti on Friday set the new date of August 10 for defendant Benjamin Schenk, of Highwood, at the request of Assistant Lake County State’s Attorney Reginald Mathews and defense attorney James Bertucci - the Highland Park News reports.
Michael Coffee, another defendant, will also go trial August 10 while Philip Vatamaniuc, a third defendant in the 2013 murder case, already had a date set for September 18.
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All three are charged with first-degree murder in what prosecutors call a drug-related robbery. The defendants are accused of setting up a marijuana deal with Nutter, a 20-year-old Highland Park resident, who was shot and died of a gunshot wound to the head while all four were in a vehicle. Nutter’s body was found on June 3, 2013 just off the Edens Expressway in Wilmette.
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