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Woodmore crash bus driver's lawyer says district attorney hid evidence, calls for judge to reconsider sentence
Dunn said she would have used that arrest to challenge the witness's credibility, except Pinkston never told her about it, despite his legal obligation as a prosecutor to share potentially helpful evidence with defendants.
Saturday, May 12th 2018, 4:37 PM EDT by
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Saturday, May 12th 2018, 4:41 PM EDT
A local judge should re-evaluate the four-year sentence he gave to the driver in the Woodmore Elementary School fatal bus crash case because prosecutors "actively suppressed" potentially helpful information from his legal team, a motion filed Friday states.
Defense attorney Amanda Dunn said Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston dismissed a witness's aggravated domestic assault charges the day before that witness took the stand in April and convinced a judge to give Dunn's client, Johnthony Walker, the maximum possible punishment.
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