NORWICH –  During an afternoon session the Chenango County Court house was filled with court officials, law enforcement of the Sheriff’s department  and concerned community members waited to hear what Judge Frank B. Revoir would place on the record in the matter of Ernest F. Franklin, Jr. and Heather Franklin, the Guilford couple who allegedly murdered their 16-year-old son.

It is alleged that the couple killed their son the day before setting their residence on fire.

Ernest F. Franklin entered the courtroom first with public defender John D. Cameron. Revoir initially read the defendant his rights and placed him under oath.

Revoir then read out loud the charges against Mr. Franklin. This included a three count indictment including charges of murder in the second degree, a class A-1 violent felony; arson in the third, a class C felony; and tampering with physical evidence, a class E felony.

Once Revoir finished, John Cameron and his client entered not guilty pleas on all counts.

Chenango County’s District Attorney Joseph A. McBride while representing the people, filed his affidavit of service and put on the record that his office presented the defense council with “a big box of discovery.” McBride asked that the court remand the defendant pending the resolution in this matter.