Stephen Olenchak, the
Davie officer accused of rape in March 2009, may go to trial in November. On
Thursday, Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey Levenson set a tentative trial date of
Nov. 13. Olenchak's attorney, Jim Lewis, is running for state attorney in the
Nov. 6 election. If he wins, he says he will have six weeks to handle the case
before being sworn in. John Fry, now a
judge, represented Olenchak in his first trial. The trial ended in December
2010, with jurors acquitting Olenchak on one charge of sexual battery but
convicting him on another. The case ended
in a mistrial after a juror admitted doing her own research on Wikipedia.
Olenchak was arrested in 2009 on charges he drugged and raped a family member,
then 19, while his wife slept next to them. Prosecutors upgraded the charge in
January to sexual battery on a helpless victim, a first-degree felony with a
possible 30-year sentence.
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