NEWS.
(HE)
A TURBULENT DAY IN
COURT AS A MAN FOUND
GUILTY OF A BRAZEN
DRIVE-BY SHOOTING LAST
YEAR-- LEARNS HIS FATE.
THE DEFENDANT PUT UP A
FIGHT IN COURT --
ARGUING WITH THE
JUDGE-- AS HIS SENTENCE
WAS DELIVERED.
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER KAIT WALSH
WAS THERE -- AND HAS
MORE NOW FROM THE
PROVIDENCE MOBILE
NEWSROOM.
KAIT?
I'M LIVE IN FRONT OF THE
CRAWFORD STREET
BRIDGE IN PROVIDENCE -
ABOUT TWO BLOCKS
FROM PROVIDENCE
SUPERIOR COURT.
THIS IS WHERE THE VICTIM
OF A DAYTIME SHOOTING
CRASHED HIS CAR AFTER
GETTING SHOT FOUR
TIMES.
TODAY - WE WERE INSIDE
COURT WHERE HIS
CONVICTED SHOOTER
GOT A LENGTHY PRISON
SENTENCE.
JOSEPH SEGRAIN WILL LIKELY
SERVE THE REST OF HIS LIFE -
OR MOST OF IT - IN PRISON.
"You're a 34-year-old cowardly
head
of a goon squad. You have no
morals. You have no conscience
and you certainly have no sense
of
civility."
EYEWITNESS NEWS WAS IN
PROVIDENCE SUPERIOR COURT
WHEN JUDGE ROBERT KRAUSE
SENTENCED HIM TO 90 YEARS
IN PRISON - WITH 80 TO SERVE -
AND 35 WITHOUT PAROLE FOR
HIS CONVICTED ROLE IN A
BRAZEN DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN
DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE ON
JANUARY 9th OF 2017.
THAT'S IN ADDITION TO 9 YEARS
HE MUST FIRST SERVE FOR
VIOLATING PROBATION ON ONE
OF FOUR PREVIOUS FELONY
CONVICTIONS.
"This defendant is not going to
be in
the position to reoffend."
JUDGE KRAUSE SAID IT WAS IN
HIS SAME COURTROOM LAST
YEAR THAT SEGRAIN CAUSED A
SCENE AS PART OF A FEUD
BETWEEN RIVAL PAWTUCKET
GANGS - AND WAS REMOVED
FROM THE COURTHOUSE.
SEGRAIN THEN WAITED WITH
OTHERS FOR THE UNINTENDED
VICTIM MATTHEW DEPINA TO
GET TO HIS CAR - AND THEN
SPED THROUGH DOWNTOWN
BY THE COURTHOUSE - AND
SHOT DEPINA FOUR TIMES - IN
THE NECK, BACK AND
SHOULDER.
DEPINA SURVIVED - BUT HAD TO
HAVE HIS SPLEEN REMOVED.
SEGRAIN WAS FOUND GUILTY
ON SEVERAL RELATED
CHARGES IN A JURY TRIAL ON
FEBRUARY 1 OF THIS YEAR.
BUT AT HIS SENTENCING - HE
ARGUED FROM THE BEGINNING.
"Joseph Segrain, 8-10-83 and
she's
not my attorney."
SEGRAIN WAS DENIED HIS
REQUEST TO REPRESENT
HIMSELF AT SENTENCING - AND
REQUIRED SEVERAL COURT
OFFICERS TO ESCORT HIM OUT
OF COURT - AND BACK TO ACI.
ON HIS WAY OUT -
SEGRAIN TOLD THE JUDGE
HE WOULD BEAT HIM IN
THE APPEAL.
NEW AT 6 - FIND OUT HOW
SEGRAIN ALMOST DIDN'T
SHOW UP IN THE
COURTROOM TODAY.
LIVE IN PROVIDENCE, I'M
KAIT WALSH, EYEWITNESS
(MM)
BUT WE BEGIN AT SIX
O'CLOCK --
WITH NEW DETAILS, ON A
WILD DAY IN COURT.
A SENTENCING HEARING..
DELAYED..
(HE)
THE DEFENDENT ---
REFUSING TO ENTER THE
COURT!
OFFICIALS EVENTUALLY
GOT JOSEPH SEGRAIN
INTO THE COURTROOM...
BUT EVEN THEN --
THERE WAS NOTHING
ROUTINE ABOUT THIS
HEARING.
(MM)
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER KAIT WALSH IS
LIVE IN PROVIDENCE NOW
--
WITH THE DETAILS.
WE ARE LIVE ABOUT TWO
BLOCKS FROM
PROVIDENCE SUPERIOR
COURT - WHERE JOSEPH
SEGRAIN WAS
SENTENCED TODAY - FOR
A DAYTIME SHOOTING
LAST YEAR - ENDING WITH
THE VICTIM'S CAR
CRASHING HERE - AT THE
CRAWFORD STREET
BRIDGE.
["JOSEPH SEGRAIN'S FATE WAS
SEALED BY THE SAME JUDGE
WHO WITNESSED HIM CAUSE A
SCENE IN THIS SAME
PROVIDENCE SUPERIOR
COURTROOM IN JANUARY OF
2017 THAT LATER RESULTED IN
A DRIVEBY SHOOTING IN
DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE.
SEGRAIN ONCE AGAIN CAUSED
A SCENE AT HIS SENTENCING
THURSDAY.
"Let's talk about that. Me.
Segrain
I'm not going to have you
interrupt
me. You tell him!"
SEGRAIN REQUESTING
MULTIPLE TIMES TO
REPRESENT HIMSELF - ONLY
AFTER DELAYING THE
SENTENCING BY FIRST
REFUSING TO ENTER THE
COURTROOM.
HE THEN ARGUED HE DIDNT
HAVE A CHANCE TO REVIEW ALL
EVIDENCE.
BUT JUDGE ROBERT KRAUSE
DISMISSED THOSE CLAIMS -
SENTENCING HIM TO 90 YEARS
IN PRISON WITH 80 TO SERVE -
AND 35 WITHOUT PAROLE.
SEGRAIN WAS CONVICTED BY A
JURY ON FEBRUARY FIRST OF
THIS YEAR FOR SHOOTING
MATTHEW DEPINA - THE
UNINTENDED TARGET OF A
RIVAL PAWTUCKET GANG
DISPUTE - HITTING HIM FOUR
TIMES IN THE NECK, BACK AND
SHOULDER.
DEPINA SURVIVED.
"This defendant is not going to
be in
the position to reoffend at
least in
the majority of his lifetime if
he
survives the sentence."
BEFORE SEGRAIN CAN BEGIN
THIS SENTENCE - HE MUST
FIRST SERVE 9 YEARS FOR
VIOLATING PROBATION ON ONE
ATTORNEY GENERAL
PETER KILMARTIN SAID
THIS IS A LESSON THAT IF
YOU ENGAGE IN GANG
VIOLENCE YOU WILL
SERVE A LENGTHY
SENTENCE.
LIVE IN PROVIDENCE, I'M
KAIT WALSH, EYEWITNESS
NEWS.