Boating Accident/Death off Diamond Island

[Gilligan]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

...in today's Dec 30 www.unionleader.com., January 18....jury selection scheduled in Belknap County court...

Here is a working link to the story mentioned by FLL.


Jury selection next month in homicide trial

Interesting comments appear after the story. It seems that the GPS data for Diamond Island was possibly altered at the time of the accident.

[ApS]

1) Another 2008 Massachusetts fatal collision—also "faulting" GPS—resulted in a ten-year supervised probation, a three-year ban from boating, a one-year suspended sentence, a five-year revocation of boating license, and a three-month suspension of driver's license. Alcohol was not a factor.
—January, 2010 Soundings magazine—no other resolution of this case was found at Google. (!)

2) Learning of quite obviously Erika—and putting on my unaccustomed F. Lee Bailey hat—this is the one rare case that I would put the defendant on the witness stand.

(In a wordless plea for sympathy ).

3) If you slowly cruised past the crash scene this season, you'd see somebody has added a rather tasteless lighthouse model.

Originally Posted by Gilligan

"...Interesting comments appear after the story. It seems that the GPS data for Diamond Island was possibly altered at the time of the accident..."

A GPS display that is staggered can't be a helpful defense in the face of BWI evidence.