UPDATED: Sawyer case ‘hanging by a thread’ as judge lowers bail

Jack Sawyer, of Poultney, talks with his defense attorneys Marshall Pahl, center, and Kelly Green, right, in Rutland criminal court during his bail review hearing Wednesday morning April 25, 2018. Pool photo by Robert Layman/Rutland Herald
RUTLAND – A Rutland judge on Wednesday lowered bail for Jack Sawyer, the 18-year-old accused by police of plotting an attack on his former high school in Fair Haven.
The bail ruling had been anticipated since last week when prosecutors dropped the most s