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June 30, 2000/27 Sivan 5760, Vol. 52, No.43
Rabbi faces death penalty
MARILYN SILVERSTEIN
Jewish Exponent
PHILADELPHIA - Calling the move "both necessary and appropriate," Camden County Prosecutor Lee A. Solomon announced late Tuesday that a grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging Rabbi Fred J. Neulander with capital murder, felony murder and conspiracy in connection with the Nov. 1, 1994, murder of his wife, Carol Neulander, in their Cherry Hill, N.J., home.
An arraignment and bail hearing was set for Wednesday afternoon in the Camden County Hall of Justice.
Solomon stated that his office would seek to have the rabbi held without bail.
Currently, Neulander is free on $400,000 bail on charges of accomplice murder and conspiracy to commit murder -charges that carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 30 years. The maximum penalty on the new charges is death.
At press time, neither Solomon nor Neulander's attorneys were available for comment. However, in the news release in which Solomon announced the indictment, the prosecutor noted that the matter had received "the same careful, deliberate review which is undertaken in all potentially capital cases."
"I took into account all of the evidence, the circumstances surrounding the case and the feelings of this victim's family," he stated. "We are never anxious to designate a case as capital. However, in this instance, I am convinced it is both necessary and appropriate."
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