FORMER ICED EARTH GUITARIST SENTENCED

Esteban Parra of The News Journal reports that former ICED EARTH guitarist Ernie Carletti declined to show remorse this morning before being sentenced to 33
years in prison for kidnapping, raping and torturing a University of
Delaware student in 2003.

"I feel, your honor, that anything I say is not going to be able to contribute," 32-year-old Carletti told Superior Court Judge Jan R. Jurden after she gave him a final opportunity to speak. Carletti mumbled some other words, which could not be understood.

The
victim, a former University of Delaware student, testified in November
that a stranger forced her into his car at gunpoint as she waited for a
ride at the Burger King parking lot on South Chapel Street in Newark on
May 22, 2003. He handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded her as he drove
to his home in Elkton, Md., she said, then took her into his house and
raped her.

The victim testified Carletti ordered her to
call him "master," and she heard him playing with chains. He then put a
gag in her mouth, wrapped a chain around her neck and shackled limbs
and began lifting her off the table, she said.

After she nearly
passed out, the woman said, the stranger returned her to the car and
drove her back to Newark. On the way, she said, the stranger replaced
the handcuffs with duct tape, apologized to her and told her not to
tell anyone.

He then slowed the car and pushed her out, leaving her hogtied and blindfolded on West Main Street.

Carletti admitted at trial to abducting and shackling the woman, as well as taking her to his home, where he hogtied her.

But he insisted that he did not rape her, and continues to maintain his innocence on that charge.

"It was disappointing that he was not remorseful and did not, at least, apologize to the victim," prosecutor Donald R. Roberts said after the sentencing hearing.

When first interviewed by police, Carletti

said he did not kidnap the woman. He later admitted to doing so when
investigators found his fingerprints on duct tape recovered from the
abduction.

Carletti, a guitarist who played with the bands NAUGHTY NAUGHTY and ICED EARTH, was charged last year in another sexual assault that occurred when he was in high school. That case will not be prosecuted.

Even though Roberts asked the judge for a life-in-prison term, he said the state and family were pleased with the sentence.

"The defendant will be, at a minimum, 64 years old when he gets out of jail," he said.



I just read this on www.metalreviews.com - ...so sad

I'm sick of this, the guy didn't even do so much as rehearse with Iced Earth. Leave the band out of it.

He's the Jeff Fenholt of ICED EARTH!

How long was in the band? 10 minutes? lol

Buh-bye, loser.

How black metal of him.

Ok, I am sorry, I don't know much about Iced Earth! - I just thought you would all like to know, that he has finally been sentenced.

I think people were just saying how the media shouldn't tie this turd to Iced Earth. I thought it was appropriate for you to post.

Funny how the mainstream totally ignors anything to do with real metal unless some sick SOB is connected to it, even so distantly connected as this guy was.

Who cares? Tell me when he's dead.

DallasBlack wrote:

Funny how the mainstream totally ignors anything to do with real metal unless some sick SOB is connected to it, even so distantly connected as this guy was.

meh, any press is good press.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

He's the Jeff Fenholt of ICED EARTH!

Is he the guy that claimed to have recorded a black sabbath album, but it turned out it was just demos with Tommi trying out a lead singer and is now
"born again" and milking his 15 minutes for a show on TBN or is he the one who claims to have been the original Nikki Sixx and has a show on TBN? Or are they one in the same?

DallasBlack wrote:

Funny how the mainstream totally ignors anything to do with real metal unless some sick SOB is connected to it

Exactly. It's because the media degrades metal music and its fans.

thejokeriv wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

He's the Jeff Fenholt of ICED EARTH!

Is he the guy that claimed to have recorded a black sabbath album, but it turned out it was just demos with Tommi trying out a lead singer and is now
"born again" and milking his 15 minutes for a show on TBN or is he the one who claims to have been the original Nikki Sixx and has a show on TBN? Or are they one in the same?

Same guy, I think.

Yeah thats who Jeff Fenholt is. A liar and a fake. I know the guy personally.

Anyways, this guy's 30 minutes of fame is come and gone. Let him be someone else's smurfette now!!

Yes, that's Jeff Fenholt...the "I was in a room with Tony Iommi once & he had a tape player rolling so now I can say I was in Black Sabbath" guy....

thejokeriv wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

He's the Jeff Fenholt of ICED EARTH!

Is he the guy that claimed to have recorded a black sabbath album, but it turned out it was just demos with Tommi trying out a lead singer and is now
"born again" and milking his 15 minutes for a show on TBN or is he the one who claims to have been the original Nikki Sixx and has a show on TBN? Or are they one in the same?

what really sucks about Fenholt is that he's been milking his 15 minutes for the last 20 YEARS !!!

mr.electric39 wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

He's the Jeff Fenholt of ICED EARTH!

Is he the guy that claimed to have recorded a black sabbath album, but it turned out it was just demos with Tommi trying out a lead singer and is now
"born again" and milking his 15 minutes for a show on TBN or is he the one who claims to have been the original Nikki Sixx and has a show on TBN? Or are they one in the same?

what really sucks about Fenholt is that he's been milking his 15 minutes for the last 20 YEARS !!!

The only people he impresses are the Christian TV types who go all "ooh, aah" over his claims to have been in "Black Sabbath" (which is, as everyone knows, as evil as it gets)...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

mr.electric39 wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

He's the Jeff Fenholt of ICED EARTH!

Is he the guy that claimed to have recorded a black sabbath album, but it turned out it was just demos with Tommi trying out a lead singer and is now
"born again" and milking his 15 minutes for a show on TBN or is he the one who claims to have been the original Nikki Sixx and has a show on TBN? Or are they one in the same?

what really sucks about Fenholt is that he's been milking his 15 minutes for the last 20 YEARS !!!

The only people he impresses are the Christian TV types who go all "ooh, aah" over his claims to have been in "Black Sabbath" (which is, as everyone knows, as evil as it gets)...

He did the vocals on the first Joshua disc "Never Surrender"..... I went to go hear him in San Francisco at the Cow Pallace for someone's crusade 20 years ago. Paid my $10 .... $10 !!! for a cassette of his testimony.... sheesh....