The Martha s Vineyard Times
Attorney: New evidence emerges in Bagnall case
Martin Skip Tomassian (foreground) told the court he has received exculpatory evidence in the property defacement case his client Paul Bagnall (background) faces.
Edgartown’s shellfish constable, Paul Bagnall came before Edgartown District Court Judge Benjamin Barnes remotely Friday morning for a pretrial conference on a charge of property defacement.
Bagnall is accused of using a town vehicle to tear up a lawn. Bagnall’s attorney, Martin (“Skip”) Tomassian, told the court he “just came into possession of some exculpatory evidence” in the case. He did not articulate what the evidence was. Bagnall pleaded not guilty to the defacement charge at his Dec. 31 arraignment. This followed a Dec. 9 probable cause finding at a clerk magistrate’s hearing. According to a police report and court records, Bagnall allegedly ruined portions of his neighbor’s lawn with a town-owned pickup t