Central Islip triple murder trial delayed by refusal to testify
Investigators comb a Central Islip house where three   The end
of a lengthy triple murder trial in Suffolk County Court has
been delayed because federal probation officers have refused to
comply with a subpoena to testify as witnesses for one of the
defendants.  Thomas Singletary, one of two men charged with
first-degree murder and arson, wants his former probation
officers, Edward Kanaley and Trevor Reid, to tell a jury he was
complying with the rules the day after the Aug. 11, 2009, crime
and a couple of weeks before. Judge James Hudson signed a
subpoena for defense attorney Daniel Russo of Westhampton Beach,
but the officers and their supervisor say they don't have to
obey it.  "There is no legal authority requiring the federal
judiciary or any of its employees to comply with your subpoena,"
Chief U.S. Probation Officer Eileen Kelly wrote to Russo. ". . .
Thus, your subpoena is improper and unenforceable, and I
respectfully request that you w