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June 1, 2007

Judge: Derderian on schedule for community service

After what the Rhode Island Attorney General considered a slow start, Station nightclub co-owner Jeffrey Derderian's community service work appears to be on schedule, a Superior Court judge said today.

Derderian was spared a jail sentence in September and ordered to perform 500 hours during his three years on probation for his role in one of the state's deadliest fires.

But Attorney General Patrick Lynch criticized Derderian's progress in April when it came to light that he'd completed 70 hours of service in the seven months since he was sentenced. Lynch called it "inadequate and very disappointing."

After an April hearing, the sentencing judge, Francis J. Darigan Jr., ordered the probation department to file quarterly reports beginning in June to update the status of Derderian's community service.

According to documents filed in Kent County Superior Court, Derderian has now completed 235 hours of community service work. A letter from the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, Inc., says he has completed 171 hours and another from West Greenwich Fire and Rescue says he has completed 64.

Extra: Read the letters.

Darigan said today, "Everything appears to be on schedule."

Derderian was not required to be in court today, and Darigan said he won't be called in unless he appears to fall off the schedule.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Talia Buford

Posted by Jack Perry  at 11:12 AM | Permalink

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