Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja found Tenorio indigent, and appointed the Public Defender’s Office to represent him.
Tenorio appeared pro se, or by himself, for his arraignment hearing after Chief Prosecutor Michael Ernest filed an information, charging him with one count of assault and one count of disturbing the peace.
Through Assistant Public Defender Richard Miller, Tenorio waived formal reading of all the charges in the information, waived advisement of constitutional rights, and entered a not guilty plea.
Naraja scheduled for next month a status conference before Judge Kenneth L. Govendo.
On Feb. 26, 2011, after returning from a public hearing on Tinian, Syed said he received a death threat from an anonymous caller.
“I’m going to chop your feet and your hand and kill you and your family,” Syed recalled the caller as saying.
Using a Carolinian family name, the caller called Syed twice on his cell phone.
Syed said he immediately reported the incident to the police.
Syed also reported the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Last March, Syed received a call from the caller’s aunt, and asked him to forgive her nephew.
