Timothy D. Wells Pleads Not Guilty To Murdering His Wife Christine D. Sevilla
According to a Rochester Democrat & Chronicle article by Gary Craig titled 'Ex-RIT professor Timothy Wells, accused of killing wife, appears in court today' Rochester NY U*U, and apparently X RIT professor, Timothy D. Wells has entered a plea of "Not guilty" to the second degree murder of his X-wife Christine D. Sevilla. Interestingly enough Timothy D. Wells has "been held without bail since being taken into custody Dec. 1." If I remember correctly a judge had entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Timothy Wells when he was initially arraigned, presumably because Timothy Wells was too emotionally distraught to enter any plea himself at the time or simply refused to do so for some other unknown reason.
According to the article Monroe County Court Judge John Connell has set an additional pre-trial hearing for February 26, 2010 and Timothy Wells’ lawyer, James Nobles, has reserved the right to request bail at a future date. It thus appears that Timothy D. Wells will remain jailed for some time yet, possibly right up until the pre-trial hearing set for February 26th. The article say that, "Wells was a former associate professor of information sciences and technologies at Rochester Institute of Technology." I was under the impression that Timothy Wells was still an RIT professor at the time of his wife's death but maybe that is not the case. The article says that what former UUA President Rev. Dr. John A* Buehrens refers to as "the secular authorities" allege that Timothy D. Wells telephoned 911 and confessed that he had killed his wife. According to the Democrat & Chronicle report Timothy Wells led sheriff’s deputies to the body of Christine Sevilla and told police investigators,
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. I love her very much."
This is the first report that I know of where Timothy Wells claims that he did not mean to kill his wife, but one thing seems very clear from this report and all other reports that I am aware of, Rochester New York Unitarian*Universalist Timothy D. Wells did in fact kill his wife Christine Sevilla regardless of whether or not there was any criminal intent on his part to do so. According to this report -
"Friends of the couple (Avenger's note: No doubt including a good number of Rochester New York Unitarian*Universalists) continue to be baffled by the death. They have described Wells as a gentle, caring husband."
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle report concludes by saying -
In court this morning, he nodded and smiled at acquaintances and mouthed “thank you” to them as he was being led away.
One wonders what Timothy D. Wells was thanking these "acquaintances" for.
I am reserving judgment on this apparently quite serious U*U injustice, if not U*U "domestic abuse". . . until more is known about it, after all it *could* be an accidental death of one kind or another, but I *will* say that all too many of the Unitarian*Universalist U*Us I know plead "not guilty" to "crimes" that they are in fact very much guilty of actually committing.
Time will tell. . .
According to the article Monroe County Court Judge John Connell has set an additional pre-trial hearing for February 26, 2010 and Timothy Wells’ lawyer, James Nobles, has reserved the right to request bail at a future date. It thus appears that Timothy D. Wells will remain jailed for some time yet, possibly right up until the pre-trial hearing set for February 26th. The article say that, "Wells was a former associate professor of information sciences and technologies at Rochester Institute of Technology." I was under the impression that Timothy Wells was still an RIT professor at the time of his wife's death but maybe that is not the case. The article says that what former UUA President Rev. Dr. John A* Buehrens refers to as "the secular authorities" allege that Timothy D. Wells telephoned 911 and confessed that he had killed his wife. According to the Democrat & Chronicle report Timothy Wells led sheriff’s deputies to the body of Christine Sevilla and told police investigators,
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. I love her very much."
This is the first report that I know of where Timothy Wells claims that he did not mean to kill his wife, but one thing seems very clear from this report and all other reports that I am aware of, Rochester New York Unitarian*Universalist Timothy D. Wells did in fact kill his wife Christine Sevilla regardless of whether or not there was any criminal intent on his part to do so. According to this report -
"Friends of the couple (Avenger's note: No doubt including a good number of Rochester New York Unitarian*Universalists) continue to be baffled by the death. They have described Wells as a gentle, caring husband."
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle report concludes by saying -
In court this morning, he nodded and smiled at acquaintances and mouthed “thank you” to them as he was being led away.
One wonders what Timothy D. Wells was thanking these "acquaintances" for.
I am reserving judgment on this apparently quite serious U*U injustice, if not U*U "domestic abuse". . . until more is known about it, after all it *could* be an accidental death of one kind or another, but I *will* say that all too many of the Unitarian*Universalist U*Us I know plead "not guilty" to "crimes" that they are in fact very much guilty of actually committing.
Time will tell. . .
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