BRIGHTON — A parolee who pleaded guilty to the 2013 kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl from her Aurora home asked to withdraw his plea at a Wednesday hearing where he was set to be sentenced, telling a judge he believes his private lawyers were lying to him.
John Snorsky, 27, was set on Wednesday to be sentenced after pleading guilty in September to one count of burglary and one count of kidnapping. Both charges are felonies.
“I don’t feel I’ve been represented as I should be,” Snorsky told a judge. “I want to fight.”
Adams District Judge Thomas Ensor allowed Snorsky’s private attorneys to withdraw and assigned him a public defender. Whether Snorsky can withdraw his guilty plea will be discussed during a Jan. 12 hearing.
Prosecutors say if the plea is withdrawn, they will go to trial.
“I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for (the) victims,” said District Attorney Dave Young, who objected to the judge’s ruling.
Snorsky pleaded guilty to grabbing the girl from her bedroom window Oct. 28, 2013.
The girl’s screams woke her parents, according to an affidavit.
The girl’s father found her missing from her room and ran outside, where he saw his daughter running toward the house from an alley in the 1600 block of Hanover Street.
She later told investigators that she pinched the man who grabbed her and screamed before he dropped her.
Snorsky was arrested the next day.
Investigators said DNA from the girl’s clothing matched Snorsky.
In his 10-page letter to Ensor, Snorsky said media coverage of his case has created a “lynch mob” against him in jail and he was “bullied” and “threatened” into accepting the plea agreement.
