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Just when you thought it was safe to put the Pitonyak/Hall case behind us, one of our more curious characters reemerges....
"Now, Conley has given his input on Hall’s case to the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin, which tomorrow will consider Hall’s appeal in the case.
Conley wrote in a 16-page amicus curiae, or friend of the court brief, that his “interest is the promotion and preservation of a strong, fair and honest criminal justice system.”
Most of the brief attacks Hall’s indictment for felony hindering apprehension, for which she was acquitted. (She was convicted of misdemeanor hindering apprehension.) Conley argues that Travis County assistant district attorneys committed misconduct by securing the indictment.
The indictment charged that Hall knew that Pitonyak had been charged with murder when she drove him to Mexico after the August 2005 killing and dismembering of Cave. But according to testimony of the lead detective and court documents, Pitonyak was not charged until after the pair reached the border town of Piedras Negras.
Conley, who according to his brief now lives in Prescott, Ariz., noted these facts “to align the pertinent facts from the record to assist the court in considering this matter.”
www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2008/09/23/cab_driver_in_laura_hall_case.html
"Now, Conley has given his input on Hall’s case to the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin, which tomorrow will consider Hall’s appeal in the case.
Conley wrote in a 16-page amicus curiae, or friend of the court brief, that his “interest is the promotion and preservation of a strong, fair and honest criminal justice system.”
Most of the brief attacks Hall’s indictment for felony hindering apprehension, for which she was acquitted. (She was convicted of misdemeanor hindering apprehension.) Conley argues that Travis County assistant district attorneys committed misconduct by securing the indictment.
The indictment charged that Hall knew that Pitonyak had been charged with murder when she drove him to Mexico after the August 2005 killing and dismembering of Cave. But according to testimony of the lead detective and court documents, Pitonyak was not charged until after the pair reached the border town of Piedras Negras.
Conley, who according to his brief now lives in Prescott, Ariz., noted these facts “to align the pertinent facts from the record to assist the court in considering this matter.”
www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2008/09/23/cab_driver_in_laura_hall_case.html
