I quit my prosecutor’s job before I did any homicides to go into environmental law, but I’m having coffee this week with a lawyer friend who has worked both sides of the felony street.

As for the offer to detail Mr Patrick out here, I think Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 could take care of some shit.

/police blotter reader who hates going out after dark

On the other hand, they were shooting the new Georgia O’Keefe TV movie at the end of the block from my office this week. I’ll try to remember to bring the camera this week.

@ Lefty – Driver’s statements were not the defense strategy but the lying asshole’s initial comments to the cops. The actual defense strategy will be to rely upon sloppy police work, extensive suppression of evidence and what I forsee as the difficulty of placing the Defendant behind the wheel at the time my cousin was hit. I forsee a SOD (some other dude) defense, i.e., I was drunk and SOD offered to drive and he hit that guy, etc. There are reports that there were at least one of two more additional persons in the vehicle before the cops caught them.

Also, I expect that the defense will seek a change of venue due to the extensive pre-trial publicityand the tainted jury pool as documented in the anti-Defendant comments in the local paper and get it moved to (a) an anti-Indian part of the state, although they would convict a Hispanic defendant with a Richardson connection in a minute, or (b) an almost 100 percent Hispanic part of the state where political connections are respected and Indians not so much.

Was the state trooper passenger drunk too or they didn’t even test him?

Is the defense strategy really this moronic or is this a brilliant legal strategy to so alienate and taint the jury pool that the trial will have to be moved elsewhere in the state? Really, I don’t understand trying to argue that with a straight face.

Linky seems to work now.

“The politically connected lawyer who allegedly struck and killed a San Felipe Pueblo man last week told police he thought someone had thrown a rock at his car when he hit the man, according to court documents. ”

Oh, and the city cops let Bill Richardson’s security guy go although he had blood on his clothing when they caught the driver.

Full story: “Driver says he thought rock hit car in fatal hit-and-runs”, sfnewmexican.com – the link is busted.

Also, “mauling the constable’s genitals.”
Ouch!