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By staff reports, April 14, 2008

Last updated: Monday, April 14, 2008 12:03 PM EDT

The man charged Thursday with making a false rape accusation against former Cumberland County commissioner Bruce Barclay appeared in a Mechanicsburg courtroom this morning.

William Marshall McCurdy, 20, of Berks County, waived his preliminary hearing in a brief appearance before Magisterial District Judge Margaret Brea, which means the charges against him will proceed to court.

McCurdy is charged with making false reports to law enforcement authorities and unsworn falsifications to authorities. The former charge is a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, he said, and the latter is a third-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a $2,500 fine.

He made bail over the weekend and was released from Cumberland County Prison.

For more on this story, read Tuesday’s edition of The Sentinel.