Nicole Fuller

It will be the first time a former or sitting president has been the defendant in a criminal trial.

The caseworkers shielded themselves from public review of their actions — and potential criminal charges — due to confidentiality laws that must be reformed, a special grand jury found.

“We’re still working through a lot of evidence,” Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney told Newsday.

Guy Rivera was charged with the murder of Officer Jonathan Diller one day after the driver of their car was charged with weapons possession.

Devon Thurmond, 23, admitted in federal court that he, along with two co-defendants, sold pills containing deadly fentanyl.

Police identified the victim as Malcolm C. Brown, 53, as the man whose body parts were found on Feb. 29 and March 5.

The statement came a day after Asa Ellerup said she doesn’t think her husband of 27 years is capable of having committed the killings.

Asa Ellerup, the estranged wife of Rex Heuermann, visits her husband weekly in jail. “I have given Rex the benefit of the doubt, as we all deserve,” she said.

The four defendants in the case have been charged with offenses related to concealing a human corpse and hindering prosecution, but not murder. They return to court March 19.

Leniz Escobar was convicted of luring the men to their hacking deaths at a Central Islip park in 2017.