"Fla. highway patrol rejects report" Associated Press, August 11, 2012
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol issued a report Friday defending its actions surrounding a chain of fatal crashes on a fog-choked roadway, suggesting that unpredictable weather and motorist failures made it unlikely that any amount of planning or policy changes could have prevented the 11 deaths.
The patrol rejected many of the findings of an April report by another state agency, the Department of Law Enforcement, which found that errors but not criminal violations were made in decisions leading to the Jan. 29 wrecks that killed 11 people along Interstate 75 near Gainesville. The Highway Patrol laid significant blame on drivers themselves, not law enforcement.
‘‘Even if each of the recommendations made by the FDLE in its incident review were to have been present or occurred that night, it is probable the same decision would have been reached,’’ the report states. ‘‘Also, no amount of planning or policy will take the place of driver reaction to low visibility and unpredictable conditions.’’
The Highway Patrol and the Law Enforcement department are separate agencies that do not report to one another. The Highway Patrol report offers a point-by-point rejection of the earlier Law Enforcement report on the crashes.
The patrol’s parent agency, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, said Tuesday that it has received 13 lawsuit notices from people who either were injured in the crashes or whose family members were killed.
The early-morning crashes occurred on an unlit stretch of road where wildfire smoke mixed with fog.
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Related: Foggy Florida Highway
Drumming Up a Florida Post
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Things are fogging up again:
George Zimmerman to seek a dismissal
The hearing, [will] probably will not take place for several months....
The case drew local and nationwide protests because Zimmerman was not arrested for several weeks after the shooting....
If his stand-your-ground claim succeeds, however, the criminal charges would be dismissed, and Zimmerman could not be held liable in any civil action such as a wrongful-death lawsuit. Prosecutors would probably appeal a successful self-defense claim.
Related:
George Zimmerman accused of molestation
(Blog editor simply shakes his head; they will stop at nothing to advance the agenda)
If you stick with it long enough and to the end, however, the fog will clear.
Also related:
Fla. appeals ruling voiding ‘Docs vs. Glocks’ law
Police: 3 shot in Miami after domestic dispute
Fog still clearing out:
"Exonerated Florida man faces charges" by Gary Fineout | Associated Press, August 01, 2012
TALLAHASSEE — A Florida man who spent more than two decades in prison before he was exonerated of rape and was paid more than $1 million has been charged with attempted murder.
Alan Jerome Crotzer, 51, is accused of shooting into a car that he was driving alongside Sunday in Tallahassee, wounding Antoine Davis in his arm and leg....
Crotzer spent more than 24 years in prison after he was convicted of rape in 1982. Crotzer was convicted of robbing a Tampa family and kidnapping and raping a 38-year-old woman and a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint.
Crotzer said he was nowhere near the scene and witnesses corroborated that, but he had a previous robbery conviction when he was 17 and a witness picked him out of a lineup. He was sentenced to 130 years in prison....
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"Registry compiles false convictions; Researchers say more than 2,000 have been cleared" by Pete Yost | Associated Press, May 21, 2012
WASHINGTON - More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities.
There is no official record-keeping system for exonerations of convicted criminals in the country, so academics set one up. The new national registry, painstakingly assembled by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, is the most complete list of exonerations ever compiled....
In all the cases, police officers fabricated crimes, usually by planting drugs or guns on innocent defendants....
Noooooooooooooo!!!!!
The most common factor leading to false convictions was perjured testimony or false accusations....
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I gotta tell you, I'm clearly seeing AmeriKan justice right now!
Of course, they would never hold anything back in Massachusetts.
