“Although the defendant is suffering from a mental disease or defect, that disease would not render him incompetent to stand trial or otherwise to proceed in the case,” Lawson wrote April 8, according to federal court records.
Mariani has suffered from some mental issues, but Lawson ruled in April they are not severe enough to prevent him from facing the charges. If he does not plead, he is scheduled to go on trial June 28 in front of U.S. He faces a June 16 pretrial at which he may enter a plea in the federal case. The most serious charge carries a 10-year minimum penalty. Attorneys with receipt and possession of child pornography, coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and transfer of obscene material to a minor. He also allegedly convinced them to send him pornographic images of themselves and provided photos to at least one of them for which he was charged by U.S. Mariani allegedly assaulted one girl in fall 2020 and a second girl on New Year’s Eve 2020 after meeting them over social media. Macomb prosecutors did not not oppose Mariani serving the state sentence concurrently with any federal term he may receive.
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