Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The defense attorney for Robert Phelan, an Oak Lawn man accused of sexually assaulting a 93-year-old dementia patient at an Orland Park care facility, said Monday, Jan. 28 that the state's key witness is involved in a civil lawsuit with the facility.
A supervising nurse and key witness against an Oak Lawn man accused of sexually assaulting a then-93-year-old dementia patient at an Orland Park care facility has been fired from the facility and is now involved in a civil lawsuit, a defense attorney said Monday, Jan. 28. Robert Phelan, 58, is out on $350,000 bond in connection to the July 24, 2011 alleged incident, where authorities say he sexually assaulted the elderly woman at the facility where he was working as a nurse's assistant. Phelan appeared quietly in a Cook County Judge Colleen Ann Hyland's Bridgeview courtroom on Monday with his attorney Howard J. Wise. Assistant State's Attorney and special prosecutor Mary Lou Norwell told Hyland during Monday's hearing there is a "new …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The attorney for Robert Phelan, accused of sexually assaulting a 93-year-old dementia patient at an Orland Park care facility, has filed a motion to quash Phelan's arrest in the case.
The defense attorney representing an Oak Lawn man accused of sexually assaulting a 93-year-old dementia patient said Tuesday that he will argue motions to suppress the man's arrest. Howard J. Wise, attorney for Robert Phelan, told Judge Colleen Ann Hyland during a status hearing in her Bridgeview courtroom that he filed the motion about three weeks ago. Wise didn't give any details about the motion; Patch was unable to get comment after Tuesday's hearing. Phelan, 57, is accused of sexually assaulting the 93-year-old dementia patient while she was being treated at an Orland Park care facility on July 24, 2011, where he was working as a nurse, according to prosecutors. Phelan is free on a $350,000 bond. In early September of this year, …
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
A prosecutor asked that a statement uttered immediately after the alleged sexual assault by Robert Phelan, 57, be admitted as an exception the hearsay rule. Phelan's attorney Howard Wise says the statement in question doesn't qualify.
A Cook County judge will rule next month on whether a statement reportedly made by an elderly sex abuse victim will be allowed in court or barred because it's hearsay. Robert Phelan, 57, of Oak Lawn is accused of sexually assaulting the 93-year-old dementia patient while she was treated at an Orland Park care facility, where he was working as a nurse, according to prosecutors. Assistant State's Attorney Mary Lou Norwell asked Judge Colleen Ann Hyland Tuesday at the Bridgeview Courthouse if a statement reportedly made by the woman to another nurse immediately after the alleged assault could be admitted rather than have the woman testify at the trial. According to Illinois law, a jury has the right to weigh statements of hearsay so long as a…
Susan
10:38 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Really Katey ? And you know all this because.... Just because he is a male CNA makes him guilty ? He has no prior record of ever being accused of anything like this in his career so he is going to abuse a 93 yr old woman ? Isn't it odd now that the key witnesses are no longer working there either ? Ummm.... People are always looking for someone to blame. Do you know how many other male CNA's have… more ›