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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Ind. Courts - Special prosecutor named in attorney's fatal DUI case

Jon Murrary reports this afternoon in the Indianapolis Star:

A Marion Superior Court judge this afternoon appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case of an attorney accused of getting drunk at a strip club before a car crash that killed the other driver.

Former Monroe County Prosecutor Barry Brown will take over the case against Terry Record once he formally accepts the appointment.

Record, 27, is charged with two felony counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, causing death, and one count of reckless homicide in the May 6 death of Jimmy R. Cash. Record is on home detention at his family's house while he awaits trial and did not attend this afternoon's brief hearing before Judge Grant Hawkins.

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, a Republican, frequently relies on Brown, a Democrat, in cases with the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Record worked for Brizzi as a deputy prosecutor-in-training for one week in October, but he was fired for lying about his involvement in another crash. After the latest crash, Record was fired from his job as a staff attorney for the Indiana State Department of Health.

See May 11th story here.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 31, 2007 04:09 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts