Originally posted by 83v45magna: I thought his family spent all the money so He had to use a public defender.
Maybe there's more money now.
No they had a private attorney, just a very cheap one. The excellent criminal defense attorneys (black or white) wanted $500K up front. The private attorney he had was $50-70K or so. Crump just wants it for the publicity.
As for the comment on the officer "leisurely" responding. Bullshit. The officer did a good job arriving on a chaotic scene with large amount of people spread over a huge area with not much initial information available (911 calls are ALWAYS all over the road on victim, suspect descriptions, and locations, dispatchers try to pick the wheat form the chaff but it is very hard to do). The officer identified the suspect, took him into custody without incident, located the injured person, and radioed all that information for responding police and ambulance personnel. There is a time to run into (amps up your system resulting in tunnel vision, auditory exclusion, ie hearing but not listening) a scene and there is a time to move smoothly while assessing everything going on, especially if you are the first officer on scene.This message has been edited. Last edited by: jsbcody,
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Originally posted by jsbcody: As for the comment on the officer "leisurely" responding. Bullshit. The officer did a good job arriving on a chaotic scene with large amount of people spread over a huge area with not much initial information available (911 calls are ALWAYS all over the road on victim, suspect descriptions, and locations, dispatchers try to pick the wheat form the chaff but it is very hard to do). The officer identified the suspect, took him into custody without incident, located the injured person, and radioed all that information for responding police and ambulance personnel.
I absolutely agree.
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