Sean Williams wins trial delay in NC

Alleged serial rapist and convicted child sex abuser Sean Williams has won another delay in his federal drug trafficking and child pornography trials in North Carolina despite prosecutors’ warnings that resolution for alleged victims in Tennessee would be delayed as a result. The former downtown Johnson City resident, who has already been sentenced to 95 years in separate Tennessee-based federal cases, won’t be tried in the January 5 term in either of the cases, which have now been delayed multiple times. A new date has not yet been set. Judge Martin Reidinger of North Carolina’s Western District Court approved the delay in Williams’s drug trafficking trial over the objection of prosecutors, who had argued delays are of Williams’s own making. The prosecutors argued that because Williams “is facing pending charges involving victims in Tennessee, the continuance is contrary to public interest because it would delay resolution for those victims.” Williams is suspected of having drugged and raped more than 60 women at his downtown Johnson City apartment. That number is based on photos and video recordings of the crimes — digital evidence Williams possessed when he was arrested in N.C. On April 30, 2023.