HEADLINE:
Disparate And Lazy Prosecutor Joseph Valde Wants The Associated Press To Save The Poorly Investigated Greenwich Police Department Case.
QUOTE:
”If people knew that every time they talked to a reporter they'd be talking to a state prosecutor, they'd stop talking to reporters,” New York attorney David Schulz said. “The state is trying to get the benefit of a reporter doing his job covering this case. That's exactly what the shield law does not allow.”
“It's a fishing expedition.”said Howard Ehring, Golder's public defender.
STORY:
Stamford (AP) - A Connecticut judge will decide whether prosecutors can subpoena an Associated Press reporter who conducted a jailhouse interview of the man police accuse of being the “dinnertime bandit.”
Prosecutors on Friday asked Stamford Superior Judge John F. Kavanewsky Jr. to allow them to question AP correspondent John Christoffersen about his interview with Alan Golder in February.
Golder is accused of a series of spectacular burglaries in 1996 and 1997 of several wealthy homes in Greenwich and Darien. Police say he scaled mansion walls wearing a black “ninja”-type suit and hood, slipping through second-floor windows during dinnertime while alarms were off and stealing precious jewels and property valued at $1 million.
The Connecticut thefts began three months after Golder - a longtime burglar who stole from the homes of celebrities including Johnny Carson and Glen Campbell - was released from prison on parole. He fled the country in 1997 and lived in Europe before being arrested in Belgium in 2006 and extradited to Connecticut, where he's being held pending his trial.
The request is one of the first challenges to Connecticut's 2006 shield law, considered to be one of the strongest in the nation. Before obtaining the subpoena, prosecutors must convince a judge that a reporter holds information critical to their case, that the information can be obtained from no other source, and that there is an overriding public interest.....
Please see:
AP Interview: "Dinnertime bandit" suspect tells of life on run ...
By John Christoffersen Associated Press WriterFebruary 10, 2008
Alan Golder led a charmed life as a fugitive, strolling the markets and museums of Paris where he lived with a view of the Eiffel Tower. The man who bragged of being a top burglar traveled the continent for years, blending in with his blond hair and fine suits.
But after nine years on the run Golder, who police call the "Dinnertime Bandit" finally is locked up at a noisy U.S. prison.....
Golder's public defender, Howard Ehring, said Golder made bad choices early in life, but tried to make amends by cooperating with authorities.
"I really believe on the Connecticut charges there were a couple different groups of people doing the jewelry robberies out of people's bedrooms," Ehring said. "It's not a signature crime that people go into bedrooms to steal jewels because that's where the jewels are."Please Also See:
08/01/08 Judge John Kavanewsky Jr Would Be A Fool To Try And Weaken Conneticuts 2006 Shield Law
Judge John Kavanewsky Jr had better tell the Connecticut States Attorney to have the Greenwich Police Department to hit the bricks and uncover another states witness. Otherwise Judge Kavanewsky is going to find his overturned decission in featured in law school text books.
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