[MarignyBywater] MarignyBywater Digest, Vol 29, Issue 9

[Andrea Garland]

 From my understanding, the, the witness was asked to go wait for NOPD  
where the car was located in front of the house the perp may live in,  
where a large number of people were hanging out (presumably friends or  
relatives of the perp). Agreed, we have a problem with witnesses  
coming forth in this city, but for NOPD to ask a witness to stand  
around unprotected for however long it may take them to arrive  
directly in front of the presumed perp puts the witness in a very  
dangerous situation. There has got to have been some other way for  
NOPD to handle this other than endangering the life of yet another  
person!

And, from my understanding, NOPD has refused to do anything other than  
ticket the driver, claiming they can not do anything else because the  
car has out of state plates?!


On Aug 19, 2008, at 12:48 PM, matt del vechio wrote:

> with regards to Dave Gordan's craptastic hit-and-run incident -- i  
> read in a seperate message from the FMIA that there is an eye  
> witness to accident who was instrumental in tracking down the  
> vehicle's address. there police determined its out of state, and  
> shared by many drivers. however, according to the emailed account,  
> she chose not to ID the driver out of fear of reprisal. is this  
> confirmed?
>
> if so, that's really the only place where criticism of the case can  
> go -- no matter how handy in tracking down the vehicle, w/o witness  
> cooperation nothing can happen. the NOPD cant charge somebody if  
> "nobody saw nothing".
>
>
> matt
>