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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Ind. Law - More on: Grand jury returns indictment in Jeffersonville "road rage" case
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Grace Schneider of the Louisville Courier Journal has a long story today on the grand jury indictment. A quote:
A six-member Clark Circuit Court grand jury spent last week reviewing evidence and witness testimony from the June 17 shooting in Jeffersonville before indicting Parrish on charges of aggravated battery and criminal recklessness.In a three-page grand jury report read by Judge Abe Navarro, the grand jurors said that while the man who was shot -- Wesley Mosier, 52, of Corydon -- "clearly was not without fault … the deadly force used by (Parrish) was unreasonable under the circumstances."
Brian Butler, Parrish's lawyer, said his client had mixed reactions. She was pleased the grand jury didn't indict her on an attempted murder charge, he said, but she still faces trial on the lesser charges. "She's claimed all along that she had no choice" and acted in self-defense, he said.
Butler said that while the indictment means there was cause to believe Parrish committed the offenses, a trial jury would have to find beyond a reasonable doubt that she had not acted in self-defense in order to convict her.
"That's a far higher standard" for the prosecution to prove, he said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 22, 2008 08:33 AM
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