Death-threat suspect again wants to plead guilty
The woman accused of sending death threats to aPalm Beach County man whose 6-year-old son was murdered in the SandyHook school mass shooting has decided — for the second time — that she wants to plead guilty, court records show.
Lucy Richards, 57, had previously been scheduled to plead guilty March 29 in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, but shewas a no-show for that hearing.
She phoned her attorney’s office that morning and said she was not coming to court that day and later said she had changed her mind and wanted to go to trial.
Richards was arrested a few days later in a hospital near her home in Brandon, near Tampa. She has been jailed for nearly two months and has admitted she violated the terms of her pre-trial release on bond when she decided not to showup for the court hearing.
She has pleaded not guilty to four federal charges of sending threatening email and voicemail messages to Lenny Pozner. Pozner’s son, Noah, was killed in the 2012 mass shooting in Connecticut.
But Richards, who was scheduled to go to trial June 5, has changed her mind again, court records show.
“This case will be resolved with a guilty plea,” Assistant Federal Public Defender Robert Berube wrote in court records filed lateWednesday.
Richards, a former waitress who is receiving Social Security disability payments, told in-