Staff photo / Ed Runyan Vincent D. Marbley, 61, right, is arraigned Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, where he pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated murder with gun specifications and other charges in the Oct. 17, 2024, killing of Reynaldo Hernandez on Youngstown’s East Side. His attorney, Lou DeFabio, is at left.

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum ordered Wednesday that Vincent Marbley, 61, be held in the Mahoning County jail without bond in the Oct. 17, 2024, killing of Reynaldo Hernandez in Youngstown.

Marbley’s attorney, Lou DeFabio, entered a not guilty plea on Marbley’s behalf.

The judge said the reasons for no bond are because of the aggravated murder and other charges involved, Marbley’s criminal record, and the length of time it took for Marbley to be found and apprehended.

Marbley was booked into the Mahoning County jail Monday after he was arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. He is the final defendant of three who were indicted on aggravated murder and other serious charges in the case. Three other men were indicted and later convicted on lesser charges.

Codefendant Eddie L. Winphrie, 42, of Youngstown, was captured March 30 in Columbus and was in the courtroom for a hearing Tuesday. He was indicted on charges of aggravated murder and other charges similar to Marbley.

The third person, Andre K. Bailey, 41, of Youngstown, is already serving a prison sentence of 39 years to life after being convicted at trial of aggravated murder and other charges in March of 2025.

DeFabio argued for a $500,000 bond, saying Marbley “clearly didn’t leave town in the year and a half since this happened or they wouldn’t have found him.” Law enforcement officials have not described the circumstances of Marbley’s arrest, and DeFabio did not offer any further comment to substantiate that claim.

DeFabio acknowledged that Marbley does have a criminal record, but said holding a person without bond “prepunishes a defendant for a case he hasn’t even been convicted of.”

Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Rob Andrews asked for Marbley to be held without bond because of the seriousness of the charges, the length of time it took to arrest him, his criminal record, including probation violations, and the bond set for Marbley’s codefendants. Krichbaum ordered Winphrie to be held without bond last month.

Marbley and Winphrie have now also waived their speedy-trial rights, which increases the amount of time before each man has to be brought to trial. But Krichbaum said his office was going to set a pretrial within 30 days and jury-trial within a week after that.

But because DeFabio was just appointed to the case, he will consider pushing things back “if it is shown to me that’s necessary,” Krichbaum said.

Later, a June 16 pretrial and June 22 jury trial date were set for Marbley.

In addition to aggravated murder, Marbley is indicted on firearm specifications, murder, aggravated robbery with a gun specification, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictments in the case were issued Oct. 31, 2024.

Despite the seriousness of the case, Marbley did not display any unease during his hearing. Several people were in the back of the courtroom, and he was allowed to talk with them while he waited for the hearing to begin.

When the hearing did start, he responded at times conversationally to questions from the judge. Krichbaum was discussing speedy trial time with Marbley and mentioned that he has worked in the Mahoning County Courthouse 36 years as judge.

“I know. I know. You (were) my lawyer back in 1989,” Marbley said.

“And I never lost a case to speedy trial since I’ve been on the bench,” Krichbaum said.

The judge did not comment as to whether he remembered representing Marbley as an attorney, and Krichbaum continued his remarks about speedy trial time.

When it was time for Marbley to state whether he wished to extend the time prosecutors had to bring him to trial, he initially said no. But that was apparently in error. DeFabio advised him of what the judge was asking him, and Marbley gave the answer expected after a couple of tries.

It led to laughter from DeFabio, Marbley and others.

“I’m sorry. He’s just a little confused on the semantics,” DeFabio said.

When Krichbaum was asked later whether he remembered being Marbley’s attorney in the late 1980s, he said he did not but had no reason to doubt that Marbley was correct. A search of Marbley common pleas court cases from the late 1980s did not indicate that Krichbaum had been Marbley’s attorney.

When Krichbaum was asked whether having represented a defendant 37 years earlier would create a possible conflict in presiding over Marbley’s case, he said the process would be for a party in the case — the defense or prosecution — to indicate a concern about a possible conflict.

He said Thursday he does not know of anyone who would think a representation of that type — if there was one — “is of any consequence.”