Update: Ryan Greenberg to enter plea in boating death
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Barrington teenager Ryan Greenberg is expected to admit to his role in the boating death of Patrick Murphy on the Barrington River in July 2007. Greenberg is expected to plead no contest to a charge of reckless boating death resulting Monday before Judge Daniel A. Procaccini in Providence County Superior Court, according to court spokesman Craig N. Berke. Authorities say Greenberg was at the wheel of a motorboat July 17, 2007, when it struck and killed Murphy as he kneeboarded behind the boat. Greenberg was charged second-degree murder, reckless boating with death resulting, underage possession of alcohol, and refusal to submit to a chemical test. Greenberg was 17 at the time, but a Family Court judge waived jurisdiction over him, clearing the way for him to be tried as an adult in Superior Court. In January 2008, he pleaded not guilty to all counts. His trial had been set to start May 26. Judge Daniel A. Procaccini announced yesterday that an agreement had been reached between state prosecutors and Greenberg's lawyers after several conferences over the past few months, Berke said in a press release quoting the judge. Sentencing will take place July 22, Procaccini said. The original version of this story was posted at 5:29 p.m. 
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What a shame two young lives in ruin one dead and I can't imagine what the other young man is going through and their families as well.
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This was a horrible tragedy, but I doubt that Greenberg intended to kill Murphy. Unfortunately too many teenie-boppers in Barrington are self-indulgent, entitled brats and they just don't learn from the past.
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