Bail hearing delayed for man charged in stabbing

ROCKLAND – The 23-year-old Palmyra man charged with the stabbing death of his brother on North Haven island Aug. 10 was granted a deadline waiver Monday for a bail hearing and will now have the hearing at a later date.

Enoch B. Petrucelly is in jail for allegedly using a knife concealed in a “gentleman’s cane” to stab his 24-year-old brother, Michael, three times in the chest as he slept. Enoch Petrucelly said he thought he and his brother were romantically involved with the same woman, according to a court affidavit released Tuesday.

“What was waived was the five-day deadline for a Harnish hearing,” Petrucelly’s court-appointed attorney, Howard F. O’Brien III of Portland, said Tuesday.

“When we want to have the Harnish, or bail, hearing, we’ll contact the court,” he added. “That’s assuming that I’m still his lawyer.”

O’Brien said that as far as he knows, Petrucelly still wants another lawyer besides O’Brien, but so far the court has not appointed one.

“I still haven’t heard from the court,” O’Brien said.

Petrucelly made his first court appearance Aug. 12 before Justice William Anderson in Knox County Superior Court on a charge of murder in the death of his brother.

He remains in Knox County Jail in Rockland pending court appointment of a permanent attorney. Once an attorney has been determined, the judge also will decide whether to agree to a psychiatric evaluation of Petrucelly that was requested by the prosecution.

O’Brien said Tuesday that he had not heard from the court on that determination.

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