A shelf stocker acquitted of the lethal stabbing of an unhinged shoplifter at a Midtown CVS had his document wiped fully clear Friday as a decide tossed his remaining weapons cost.
“I’m formally a free man proper now,” a smiling Scotty Enoe advised The Put up after his low-level rap for having brass knuckles in his pocket was dismissed at a Manhattan Supreme Courtroom listening to.
Jurors at a July trial took simply twenty minutes to acquit Enoe, 48, of manslaughter for fatally knifing Charles Brito contained in the Broadway and West forty ninth Avenue retailer.
Enoe testified that he was merely defending himself from a “loopy” thief that had punched him repeatedly and threatened his coworkers.
However the jury nonetheless convicted Enoe of legal possession of a weapon within the fourth diploma.
The Grenada-born shelf stocker, a lawful everlasting resident, may have had his inexperienced card revoked and been deported had the misdemeanor rap caught, in response to his lawyer.
The Manhattan DA’s workplace — which had charged Enoe for the brass knuckles although he didn’t use them within the the deadly battle — in the end agreed to toss the weapon possession depend.
Decide Curtis Farber signed off on the settlement Friday, and formally dismissed what was left of the case.
“There is no such thing as a motive to imagine that Mr. Enoe is a hazard to society,” Farber mentioned from the bench, earlier than wishing Enoe luck.
Enoe, who had by no means been arrested earlier than the July 2023 episode, mentioned after the listening to that he deliberate to return to his job working six days per week stocking cabinets for the beverage distributor Huge Geyser.
His employers had helped pay to free him on $100,000 bail after he spent per week on Rikers Island after his arrest. He was launched beneath strict circumstances, together with an ankle bracelet and a nightly curfew.
“I’m simply making an attempt to reside my life,” Enoe advised The Put up Friday. “I’m not in search of bother.”
After July’s swift acquittal, Enoe and his lawyer, Frank Rothman, blasted Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for bringing the case in any respect. Enoe had confronted as much as 25 years in jail if convicted of manslaughter.
Rothman mentioned Friday that he was glad that prosecutors finally agreed to toss the remaining cost.
“It took them lengthy sufficient, however I’m relieved that they lastly did the precise factor,” he advised The Put up.
