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A judge elected to give the defendant one more crack at a deal, however.
Marc Rainey of Englewood “just wants to stay in state prison,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Nicholas Ostuni told Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi in Hackensack.
Rainey, 26, who is currently serving a state prison sentence for a Bond gang theft of a safe from Connecticut, is charged with a May 2012 burglary on Ravine Road in Wyckoff.
“Your Honor, Mr. Rainey has a complete lack of respect for the judicial system,” Ostuni told the judge. “I was going to offer him very lenient terms … but I can see it’s just a waste of time.”
Rainey first pulled his tan, prison-issued coat up over his head in court yesterday, saying “I don’t like CLIFFVIEW [PILOT],” but he later smiled and actually posed for photographs.
Defense attorney Robert Kalisch, shook his head and smiled ruefully.
DeAvila-Silebi, meanwhile, suggested Rainey have a serious conversation with his lawyer, adding that “no judge would ever give you what you’ve been offered” by prosecutors.
She told both sides to return on March 3 intent on negotiating a deal. If not, DeAvila-Silebi said, she’ll set a trial date.
STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter
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