>>8316331, >>8316390, >>8316396 Tuberville diggz
—
Suzanne Tuberville - Ran red light in Lubbock 2012 - subsequent fatality of other driver = No charges filed.
(dailytoreador.com - Mar 1, 2012)
Lubbock police unable to answer questions in Tuberville case
A well-known Lubbock criminal attorney questioned Lubbock police rationales for closing the investigation of Suzanne Tuberville’s crash.
Lubbock police said the investigation into Tuberville’s November car crash on 57th Street and Slide Road was closed without an autopsy report on a crash victim who later died, and on the basis of a 30-day rule.
“They (the police) apparently said (they) can’t do anything because it’s (the crash victim’s death) outside 30 days? That’s just bullshit,” said Rod Hobson, the special prosecutor in the Brett Walrath case.
Ira Purdy, who sustained serious injuries from the car wreck with Suzanne Tuberville, wife of head football coach Tommy Tuberville, died Feb. 17, 109 days after the wreck. Suzanne Tuberville was cited for running a red light.
Sgt. Jonathan Stewart of the Lubbock Police Department said the Suzanne Tuberville case was not considered a traffic fatality since there was no death within 30 days of the wreck, which is the determinant on whether a supplemental report must be filed, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.
However, a TxDOT employee in the open records division said the TxDOT ruling does not govern the case. The Texas Penal Code governs it and the penal code does not contain a 30-day rule.
But Stewart said the police did use the Texas Penal Code.
“The Texas Penal Code did play into what we could do with this case and we did go by the Texas Penal Code,” Stewart said. But he could not provide The Daily Toreador with the section of the penal code that contains the 30-day rule.
Hobson said he believes the 30-day rule is a departmental policy.
(article continues)
http://www.dailytoreador.com/news/lubbock-police-unable-to-answer-questions-in-tuberville-case/article_01ecf930-6365-11e1-b6b0-001a4bcf6878.html