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AGO seeks release of convict with terminal cancer
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Posted on Jun 10 2004
For humanitarian reasons, the Attorney General’s Office yesterday asked that the prison sentence imposed on a convict who has been suffering from terminal cancer be modified.
CNMI chief prosecutor David Hutton yesterday asked the Superior Court to change the original five-year prison term against Robert Fanoway to one that would simply give credit to the time the convict had spent in prison.
The court earlier convicted Fanoway, who owned up to a charge of illegally carrying a firearm.
The court had suspended the prison term, except for one year, which set Fanoway’s prison term from March 19 this year. Hutton said Fanoway began serving his sentence on that date.
“Justice is served in this instance for humanitarian reasons,” Hutton said.
Hutton cited a letter from Matthew King, the Commonwealth Health Center’s Internal Medicine Department chief, attesting Fanoway’s health condition.
King said Fanoway was admitted at the hospital on May 16 on complaints of chest pains and fever. He said Fanoway was diagnosed to have tumor that has spread throughout his lungs and abdomen.
“It is expected that his life expectancy will be measured in months rather than years, and he is now receiving morphine for his pain, with tumor also found in his back,” the doctor said in a recent letter to Hutton.
