Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 17, 1994 TAG: 9402170268
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
The disposition of four other charges against Saladin Kenyatta Corbin is more complicated.
Circuit Judge A. Dow Owens ordered a presentence report on Corbin before sentencing on the three charges. It could take 60 to 90 days to complete the report, and no sentencing date has been scheduled.
Corbin also entered pleas of no contest, which is not an admission of guilt but that there is probably enough evidence to convict, on two charges of aggravated sexual battery. He made no pleas at all to the remaining two charges of attempted rape and attempted forcible oral sex.
Those four charges are part of a plea agreement which the judge ordered sealed, unread by anyone but the defendant and attorneys who worked out the agreement late Tuesday.
The judge will not read it himself until after he sentences Corbin on the three charges of taking indecent liberties with a minor, possibly in May.
Corbin had been scheduled for a jury trial starting Wednesday morning.
The agreement was reached Tuesday after the clerk's office closed. An attempt was made to reach all the prospective jurors to tell them there would be no trial, but a few could not be reached in time and showed up Wednesday.
Corbin was indicted Feb. 16, 1993, for the incidents alleged to have happened a year earlier.
Although he was an intern at the hospital, he was never employed there. He had been studying for a doctorate at Virginia Tech and has since moved to Washington, D.C.
by CNB