By C1 Staff
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A judge on Monday said she would not reduce the $10,000 cash bail set for a man who is accused of knocking over two corrections officers and continuing to punch one while he was on the ground.
MassLive reports that Stephen Moss is currently serving a sentence in a 2012 unrelated case in which he pleaded guilty to assault and battery on a corrections officer.
His defense lawyer, Matthew Fleischner, said Moss would finish his one year of incarceration on that charge and asked Hampden Superior Court Judge Mary Lou Rup to reduce bail on the current pending case to $500 or $1,000.
Both assault and battery on a correctional officer incidents are alleged to have happened at the Hampden County Correctional Center.
Fleischner said Moss is now located at Hampshire House of Corrections, and is doing well in jail and completing counseling and life skills programs.
But Assistant District Attorney Howard I. Safford told Rup he had checked with the facility and was told Moss refused to participate in a life skills program. He opposed reducing the bail and described a violent confrontation between Moss and officers in the Hampden facility which led to the current charges.
Rup said she would revisit the request to lower Moss’ bail if she is given more information about his behavior at his current facility.