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L-6 THE RECORD LOCAL NEWS FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011 Trial: Verdict due Tuesday From Page L-l Some of them said he was at times upset and remorseful about it and quoted him as saying, "I expletive up," and "Why did I do this to my brother? He was only 6 years old." At other times, he was menacing in his admission to Vincent's murder, some of the witnesses testified. "I will kill you like I killed Vin-nie," was a common threat that he uttered to his brothers, the witnesses said. Perhaps the central witness, however, was Michael Barbarino, who said he saw Joseph Barbarino plunge a knife into Vincent's body. Michael Barbarino said he was 4 years old when he and Vincent asked Joseph Barbarino to take them to the construction site. The older brother took them to the site and, as he did many times in previous occasions, he tried to sodomize him and Vincent, Michael Barbarino said.

Vincent tried to run away, but his older brother caught up with him and stabbed him, Michael Barbarino said. As Vincent cried and screamed for help, Michael Barbarino ran to his brother's rescue, pounced on Joseph Barbarino and bit him in the leg, only to be overpowered by a brother 11 years older, he said. "And then I got choked," he said during emotional testimony last week. He said he ran home, hid in his bedroom for hours, and buried the secret for years. Vincent's murder was investigated and reinvestigated during the past 39 years, but with a 4-year-old boy as the only eyewitness, the case remained cold for decades.

Authorities said Joseph Barbarino was a prime suspect from the outset and remained a suspect until he was charged with the murder in 2006. Joseph Barbarino is now 54, but in a rare proceeding, he was tried as a juvenile because he was 15 at the time of Vincent's death. Judge James Guida said he will render a verdict on Tuesday. If Mello's case stands on the close proximity of his witnesses to Joseph Barbarino, defense lawyer Ray Beam's case survives on their shaky credibility. "Michael Barbarino is not worthy of any belief," Beam said during his closing remarks Thursday after outlining Michael Barbari-no's lengthy criminal history and the conflicting descriptions he gave about the stabbing.

Beam said that from 1988 to 2006, Michael Barbarino implicated several individuals in Vincent's murder. He once told a prison psychologist that an unnamed "ex-cop" killed Vincent. He later told police that he and Vincent were assaulted by a group of teenagers. In yet another account, he identified the culprits as "two black guys." Even after he blamed Joseph Barbarino for Vincent's murder, he told police that there was a second person at the scene who held him back while Joseph Barbarino was attacking Vincent, Beam said. Michael Barbarino has eight previous convictions and five pending charges for which he will receive a lesser sentence after cutting a deal with prosecutors for his testimony in Joseph Barbarino's trial, Beam said.

"Michael Barbarino has learned how to use the system to his advantage in an attempt to get out of jail, in an attempt to get favorable treatment from prosecutors," Beam said. "You have to conclude that nothing he says is believable." Mello's response was that MichaelBarbarino was traumatized by what he witnessed as a 4-year-old boy, and then grew up in a family that wouldn't let him tell the truth. "This is a child who saw his brother slay his brother," Mello said. "On April 5, 1972, not just one child was killed by his brother, but in a very real sense, so, too, was a second brother." E-mail: markosnorthjersey.com TYSON TRISHSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Clinton Van Dunk, 11, being screened for lead exposure by nurse Mortelle Green. Blood: Kids at risk for lead Road: MVC interstate issues federal Centers for Disease Control recommends that action be taken when lead is measured at more than 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood.

However, scientists have concluded there is no safe threshold for lead exposure in children. DeGroat said the last time her son was tested, his level was 6 or 8 micrograms per deciliter below the safety standard but a number she still finds troubling. While the community has long been aware of elevated lead levels at dumping areas in the tract, levels that exceed safety standards on residential properties where children play is troubling to many. "My daughter likes to play outside," said Heather Van Dunk, who had her 4-year-old daughter tested. "All of these children play all over the neighborhood outside." Community leader Vivian Mil-ligan said she wished that more parents had brought their children in for screening.

More than 100 children live in the community, but the state is targeting children age 6 and under for the screening. However, children at any age can be screened. "I'm disappointed. It's a big issue," Milligan said. Another session is scheduled for 4 to 6 p.m.

Monday at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, at 80 Margaret King Avenue. E-mail: laytonnorthjersey.com From Page L-l can cause seizures and brain damage. Long-term exposure to lead, even at relatively low levels, has been associated with decreased hearing, lower intelligence, hyperactivity and attention deficit problems. Joelene Van Dunk had her two children tested Thursday, including her 11 -year-old son, who takes medication to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and seizures. Both conditions have been associated with varying levels of lead exposure.

"He hasn't been tested in awhile," Van Dunk said. "I want to make sure his levels are OK." Results won't be available for a week or so. Officials will determine if levels are elevated. The $40 OM: From Page L-l $1.7 billion into the project to complete construction and remake the much-criticized multicolor exterior. The state does not put any money up front, as it did at the Meadowlands EnCap site, where at least $50 million was lost because the failed project never generated tax revenues to repay the financing.

If the bill passes, the developer would apply to the Economic Development Authority for the tax break on the prem Tax incentives waited an hour and a half," he said, "then I had to leave to pick up my kids." The third visit Tuesday included a half-hour wait, but this time, an encounter with the same clerk took 40 more minutes. "He vaguely remembered what we agreed to last time," said Art, "so he had to make a second call to Trenton, and this time he got somebody else on the phone." Based on this call, the notarized bill of sale wasn't acceptable. Instead, Art had to fill out forms in a "lost title" packet that the MVC would mail him. "After talking to six people, I was told I could be approved in six to eight weeks," he said. "Meanwhile, I can't drive the car although it's insured, every inch has been cleaned, and it has a new paint job, seats and battery." Despite the conflicting answers he got, Art doesn't blame employees for the runaround.

After all, he said, they were only trying to adopt Vermont's unfamiliar regulations to their rules. "It's the long lines that make things worse," he said. "You can tell they're working like dogs trying to serve people who aren't in the best of spirits. People complained that they had to take a whole day off. The people who work there have a lot of patience." Other disgusted readers aren't so charitable.

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That could be a problem, he said, if you're doing or saying something that is illegal. The trial resumes Monday. E-mail: sampsonnorthjersey.com Elwell: Manzo wraps it up from Columbia, who speaks little English, said an MVC clerk in Lodi failed to return her passport and citizenship papers after she waited two exhausting hours in line to renew her license. "Things took so long that she became bewildered," said her daughter. An MVC spokesman denied the account.

"No documents were found," he said. There's little doubt, though, that long lines in the spring and summer heat are no longer yielding the quality service that MVC was producing a year ago. Resumption of Monday service on July 11 might reduce waits, but Art is convinced it won't be enough. He wants the Wyckoff office replaced. That wouldn't help much.

The loss of the big Wayne regional office not the small Wyckoff office created much of the North Jersey overload. Specialists at regional offices are trained to handle the lands of complicated issues that trouble motorheads like Art. MVC's solution to this problem is to beef up training for all its clerics. But based on one motorhead's experience, everybody hasn't been cross-trained, and this summer promises to be a long, hot one at the MVC. Road Warrior runs Wednesday, Friday Sunday.

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Vincent Lanteri, Dr. Mutahar Ahmed, Dr. Michael Esposito ise that the project will not be able to move forward without it. Lesniak's plan allows a qualified developer to pay only a quarter of its tax bill annually until it has recouped 20 percent of its new investment. In 2010, ProLogis, the developer of the Teterboro project, announced a targeted opening for the project of fall 2012.

A spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, Larry Ragonese, said this week that soil and groundwork are, you know," Manzo cautioned. A month later, Manzo, Elwell, two other mayors, two state legislators, five rabbis and a host of other public officials were among 44 people charged in the state's largest public corruption and money laundering sting. Esenbach, they learned, was actually a failed real estate developer from Monmouth County named Solomon Dwek who had swindled millions of dollars from relatives, friends and other investors and was arrested in May 2006 in a $50 million bank fraud. At the time of his meeting with Manzo and Cheatam at the Mal-ibu Diner, Dwek had been cooperating with the FBI for nearly three years, recording his targets with a hidden video camera as he passed out tens of thousands of dollars in bribes. As Manzo's testimony drew to a close Thursday, Assistant U.S.

From Page L-l they matched the Garden State's. They didn't. Registering a car here requires a seller to show clear title. But Vermont doesn't issue titles for cars that are 15 years old or more. So, Art got the seller, a mechanic, to give him a bill of sale from the owner who sold the car to him.

Based on this document and past experience at the Motor Vehicle Commission office in Wyckoff, Art thought the transaction would take 20 minutes. But the MVC had closed its Wyckoff office in an economy move and moved its employees to the Oakland office. That's where one motorhead's dream of bestowing his labor of love on his 16-year-old daughter began morphing into a nightmare. "It was a zoo!" Art recalled. "Lines out the door! Insane!" Insanity had just begun.

Inside, Art would get even worse news. Neither of the last two prior owners had registered the BMW in Vermont because they didn't drive it. After telephone calls to MVC's Trenton office, an Oakland clerk said the bill of sale had to be notarized. "They wanted a notarized note from the owner explaining that he never registered it," Art said. He returned a week later with these documents only to be confronted with more long lines.

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