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DUI Killer Free Since November '09 Death, Thanks to Snoozy, Boozy DA Jim Martin
Readers, LVS can barely keep up (see previous post) w/ the back-ordered felony DUI cases that DA Jim Martin is cleaning out from the bottom of his desk (because it's an election year) while everyone is on vacation and won't notice, Martin hopes. This "latest" DUI (from 2009) involves a death, and serious injury, and is again dutifully 'hidden in plain sight' online by DA Jim Martin Morning Call "newspaper" "reporter" lapdog Kevin Amerman after 5:00 pm on a Friday-- and apparently this story was cubby Amerman's last detail before his vacation starts tomorrow, according to his voicemail.
Have a read ...
Here are The Inconvenient Facts in a nutshell ...
* On November 21, 2009, driving drunk, and speeding, Miqueas Rafael Garcia slammed into the car of Carolina Fernandez, killing her front seat passenger, her mother, Lyda Estrada-Davilla, and seriously injuring another passenger.
* It took DA Jim Martin more than 6 months to file criminal charges against Garcia on May 21, 2010.
* Garcia has been free on unsecured ($0.00) bail and likely free to drive ever since the fatal crash and injury mayhem he caused on November 21, 2009.
* Today, after nearly 2 years, DA Jim Martin helpfully and (hiccup) inexplicably dropped the major charge of felony homicide by vehicle against Garcia.
* By the time Judge Kelly Banach finally sentences Miqueas Rafael Garcia on September 9th for the misdemeanors DA Jim Martin has left on the table, Garcia will have evaded all accountability for killing Lyda Estrada-Davilla for nearly 2 years.
* Not coincidentally, that's how long "no nonsense" (?) DA Jim Martin has callously kept the already victimized and grief-stricken family of Lyda Estrada-Davilla waiting for "misdemeanor justice." Nearly 2 years. Disgraceful.
DUI Killer Free Since November '09 Death, Thanks to Snoozy, Boozy DA Jim Martin
Readers, LVS can barely keep up (see previous post) w/ the back-ordered felony DUI cases that DA Jim Martin is cleaning out from the bottom of his desk (because it's an election year) while everyone is on vacation and won't notice, Martin hopes. This "latest" DUI (from 2009) involves a death, and serious injury, and is again dutifully 'hidden in plain sight' online by DA Jim Martin Morning Call "newspaper" "reporter" lapdog Kevin Amerman after 5:00 pm on a Friday-- and apparently this story was cubby Amerman's last detail before his vacation starts tomorrow, according to his voicemail.
Have a read ...
Here are The Inconvenient Facts in a nutshell ...
* On November 21, 2009, driving drunk, and speeding, Miqueas Rafael Garcia slammed into the car of Carolina Fernandez, killing her front seat passenger, her mother, Lyda Estrada-Davilla, and seriously injuring another passenger.
* It took DA Jim Martin more than 6 months to file criminal charges against Garcia on May 21, 2010.
* Garcia has been free on unsecured ($0.00) bail and likely free to drive ever since the fatal crash and injury mayhem he caused on November 21, 2009.
* Today, after nearly 2 years, DA Jim Martin helpfully and (hiccup) inexplicably dropped the major charge of felony homicide by vehicle against Garcia.
* By the time Judge Kelly Banach finally sentences Miqueas Rafael Garcia on September 9th for the misdemeanors DA Jim Martin has left on the table, Garcia will have evaded all accountability for killing Lyda Estrada-Davilla for nearly 2 years.
* Not coincidentally, that's how long "no nonsense" (?) DA Jim Martin has callously kept the already victimized and grief-stricken family of Lyda Estrada-Davilla waiting for "misdemeanor justice." Nearly 2 years. Disgraceful.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Booze-loving DA Jim Martin gives another drunk driver the break of a lifetime
Let's read between the lines of the always helpful to DA Jim Martin Morning Call "newspaper" account, shall we?
Man admits injuring passenger in drunken crash
Police: Vehicle goes airborne at 100 mph on rural road
By Kevin Amerman, Of The Morning Call "newspaper"
and Bill Villa, Of Lehigh Valley Somebody
A Forks Township man has admitted to speeding and driving recklessly while drunk last summer, causing a crash that seriously injured his passenger, who police say had warned the driver to slow down.
This happened LAST SUMMER? That's a YEAR ago. Why did it take a YEAR to resolve this case?
Joshua L. Share, 25, who police said was driving more than 100 mph down an Upper Macungie road in June 2010 before crashing, pleaded guilty last week to driving drunk with a blood alcohol level at or above .16 percent — twice the legal limit.
Share pleaded guilty LAST WEEK? Why was there a WEEK DELAY in reporting this?
Share also pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and four summary offenses for careless driving, speeding, failing to stop at a stop sign and reckless driving.
The two reckless endangerment charges each carry maximum penalties of two years in prison and the DUI charge could land Share in prison for up to a year.
Five years ... yeah, right ... let's see what Joshua Share really gets.
In return for his pleas, the most serious charge against Share — felony aggravated assault while driving drunk — was dropped.
Dropped? Why? Why wouldn't DA Jim Martin THROW THE BOOK at this drunk driver? Why would DA Jim Martin drop the felony aggravated assault charge? Not confident he could convince a jury?
Despite pleas from passenger Joshua Reinert to slow down, police say Share continued speeding and lost control of his car, striking a pole around 8 p.m. June 12 (LAST YEAR) at Arrowhead Lane and Adams Road. The car flipped several times and Reinert suffered vertebrae fractures in his neck and spine, bruised lungs and knee injuries.
This is exactly how my daughter Sheena was killed in 2006, by a drunk driver going 100 mph and ignoring his passenger's pleas to slow down. It's a miracle Joshua Reinert wasn't killed.
Q. When is DA Jim Martin going to send a message to drunk drivers that Lehigh County is not the place where you want to drive drunk.
A. (hiccup) Never.
According to court records:
Berks-Lehigh Regional police arrived after 8:10 p.m. and found a utility pole that had been knocked over, a car on its roof and Share on the road being tended to by paramedics. Reinert had already been transported to the hospital.
A police officer assisting paramedics smelled alcohol on Share, and police requested blood samples be taken at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where Share and Reinert were treated.
Witnesses said Share and Reinert had left a party in the area moments before the crash. Another witness said Share ran the stop sign before crashing.
Reinert was interviewed later and told police he was concerned about Share's speeding and told him to slow down. Reinert said he also warned Share about the stop sign at Adams Road, but Share never slowed down. He told police Share was not familiar with the roads.
A crash investigation determined that Share was heading east on Arrowhead Lane "at speeds in excess of 100 mph" and became airborne just after crossing Adams Road. When the car landed, Share lost control of the car and it slid before striking and shearing off the utility pole. The car then rolled several times before coming to rest in a field.
Test results showed that Share had a 0.16 blood-alcohol content.
FYI, as DA Jim Martin dragged his flat feet on this case, for a YEAR, Joshua Share has very likely been free to keep driving. Yep. Hopefully, he didn't injure anyone else in the past YEAR.
Share was charged on Aug. 21 (OF LAST YEAR) and released on $50,000 unsecured ($0.00) bail that day.
So it took DA Jim Martin over 2 months, 70 days (from June 12 to August 21 of last YEAR) to even charge Joshua Share w/ a crime. And then it took DA Jim Martin a YEAR to get Joshua Share to approve a bargain plea deal. Incredible.
Over in neighboring Northampton County recently, concerned citizens were rightfully clamoring for DA John Morganelli's head because it took him 7 days after a holiday weekend to file much more complex double homicide charges against former cop and alleged double DUI killer John P. Heaney III.
Share is scheduled to be sentenced next month by Lehigh County Senior Judge Lawrence J. Brenner.
Certainly, Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman knows the date and time of the sentencing, but to protect DA Jim Martin, Judge Brenner, and criminal defendant Joshua Share, Amerman didn't report it. I'll get the date and time tomorrow. [Update: It's August 15, 1:30pm, Courtroom 2B]
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Booze-loving DA Jim Martin gives another drunk driver the break of a lifetime
Let's read between the lines of the always helpful to DA Jim Martin Morning Call "newspaper" account, shall we?
Man admits injuring passenger in drunken crash
Police: Vehicle goes airborne at 100 mph on rural road
By Kevin Amerman, Of The Morning Call "newspaper"
and Bill Villa, Of Lehigh Valley Somebody
A Forks Township man has admitted to speeding and driving recklessly while drunk last summer, causing a crash that seriously injured his passenger, who police say had warned the driver to slow down.
This happened LAST SUMMER? That's a YEAR ago. Why did it take a YEAR to resolve this case?
Joshua L. Share, 25, who police said was driving more than 100 mph down an Upper Macungie road in June 2010 before crashing, pleaded guilty last week to driving drunk with a blood alcohol level at or above .16 percent — twice the legal limit.
Share pleaded guilty LAST WEEK? Why was there a WEEK DELAY in reporting this?
Share also pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and four summary offenses for careless driving, speeding, failing to stop at a stop sign and reckless driving.
The two reckless endangerment charges each carry maximum penalties of two years in prison and the DUI charge could land Share in prison for up to a year.
Five years ... yeah, right ... let's see what Joshua Share really gets.
In return for his pleas, the most serious charge against Share — felony aggravated assault while driving drunk — was dropped.
Dropped? Why? Why wouldn't DA Jim Martin THROW THE BOOK at this drunk driver? Why would DA Jim Martin drop the felony aggravated assault charge? Not confident he could convince a jury?
Despite pleas from passenger Joshua Reinert to slow down, police say Share continued speeding and lost control of his car, striking a pole around 8 p.m. June 12 (LAST YEAR) at Arrowhead Lane and Adams Road. The car flipped several times and Reinert suffered vertebrae fractures in his neck and spine, bruised lungs and knee injuries.
This is exactly how my daughter Sheena was killed in 2006, by a drunk driver going 100 mph and ignoring his passenger's pleas to slow down. It's a miracle Joshua Reinert wasn't killed.
Q. When is DA Jim Martin going to send a message to drunk drivers that Lehigh County is not the place where you want to drive drunk.
A. (hiccup) Never.
According to court records:
Berks-Lehigh Regional police arrived after 8:10 p.m. and found a utility pole that had been knocked over, a car on its roof and Share on the road being tended to by paramedics. Reinert had already been transported to the hospital.
A police officer assisting paramedics smelled alcohol on Share, and police requested blood samples be taken at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where Share and Reinert were treated.
Witnesses said Share and Reinert had left a party in the area moments before the crash. Another witness said Share ran the stop sign before crashing.
Reinert was interviewed later and told police he was concerned about Share's speeding and told him to slow down. Reinert said he also warned Share about the stop sign at Adams Road, but Share never slowed down. He told police Share was not familiar with the roads.
A crash investigation determined that Share was heading east on Arrowhead Lane "at speeds in excess of 100 mph" and became airborne just after crossing Adams Road. When the car landed, Share lost control of the car and it slid before striking and shearing off the utility pole. The car then rolled several times before coming to rest in a field.
Test results showed that Share had a 0.16 blood-alcohol content.
FYI, as DA Jim Martin dragged his flat feet on this case, for a YEAR, Joshua Share has very likely been free to keep driving. Yep. Hopefully, he didn't injure anyone else in the past YEAR.
Share was charged on Aug. 21 (OF LAST YEAR) and released on $50,000 unsecured ($0.00) bail that day.
So it took DA Jim Martin over 2 months, 70 days (from June 12 to August 21 of last YEAR) to even charge Joshua Share w/ a crime. And then it took DA Jim Martin a YEAR to get Joshua Share to approve a bargain plea deal. Incredible.
Over in neighboring Northampton County recently, concerned citizens were rightfully clamoring for DA John Morganelli's head because it took him 7 days after a holiday weekend to file much more complex double homicide charges against former cop and alleged double DUI killer John P. Heaney III.
Share is scheduled to be sentenced next month by Lehigh County Senior Judge Lawrence J. Brenner.
Certainly, Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman knows the date and time of the sentencing, but to protect DA Jim Martin, Judge Brenner, and criminal defendant Joshua Share, Amerman didn't report it. I'll get the date and time tomorrow. [Update: It's August 15, 1:30pm, Courtroom 2B]
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Paul Carpenter covers 'unscrupulous' DAs but gives DA Jim Martin another free pass
In his latest Morning Call "newspaper" opinion column, Paul Carpenter rails against unscrupulous judges and district attorneys, see Prosecutors use more than facts.
Among those raked over the Carpenter coals and branded as unscrupulous are Casey Anthony prosecuting DA Jeff Ashton, former Philadelphia assistant DA Richard Sprague, and Duke University lacrosse team rape case-fixer, Durham North Carolina DA Mike Nifong who was de-throned and disbarred for his unscrupulous prosecutorial misconduct.
Carpenter closes by writing ...
" ... you may think all this is amusing, until the day a member of your family becomes the target of an unscrupulous prosecutor."
Tell me about it. Hey Paul, we have an unscrupulous prosecutor heading up the Lehigh County District Attorney's office in an election year, a guy who you have repeatedly and helpfully and disingenuously branded as "no nonsense" DA Jim Martin.
Paul, you and I both know of quite a few families who have been the target of DA Jim Martin's unchecked unscrupulousness, including the families of ...
Sheena Villa, Zachary Mohney, Shaun Buenzly, Veronica Rohrer, Rahiem Melvin, David Rivera, Sun Cha Chon, Jane Baker, Rick Hoffman, Denise Merhi, Dennis Marsh, Alvin Marsh, Steve Zernhelt, Charles Cullen's local victims, and the taxpayers of Lehigh County.
Here, Paul, I've compiled it all for you, in one handy and verifiably factual collection ...
... which really should not remain exposé exclusive to Lehigh Valley Somebody in an election year.
Paul, start w/ the man in the mirror and start telling the truth about DA Jim Martin.
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Paul Carpenter covers 'unscrupulous' DAs but gives DA Jim Martin another free pass
In his latest Morning Call "newspaper" opinion column, Paul Carpenter rails against unscrupulous judges and district attorneys, see Prosecutors use more than facts. Among those raked over the Carpenter coals and branded as unscrupulous are Casey Anthony prosecuting DA Jeff Ashton, former Philadelphia assistant DA Richard Sprague, and Duke University lacrosse team rape case-fixer, Durham North Carolina DA Mike Nifong who was de-throned and disbarred for his unscrupulous prosecutorial misconduct.
Carpenter closes by writing ...
" ... you may think all this is amusing, until the day a member of your family becomes the target of an unscrupulous prosecutor."
Tell me about it. Hey Paul, we have an unscrupulous prosecutor heading up the Lehigh County District Attorney's office in an election year, a guy who you have repeatedly and helpfully and disingenuously branded as "no nonsense" DA Jim Martin.
Paul, you and I both know of quite a few families who have been the target of DA Jim Martin's unchecked unscrupulousness, including the families of ...
Sheena Villa, Zachary Mohney, Shaun Buenzly, Veronica Rohrer, Rahiem Melvin, David Rivera, Sun Cha Chon, Jane Baker, Rick Hoffman, Denise Merhi, Dennis Marsh, Alvin Marsh, Steve Zernhelt, Charles Cullen's local victims, and the taxpayers of Lehigh County.
Here, Paul, I've compiled it all for you, in one handy and verifiably factual collection ...
... which really should not remain exposé exclusive to Lehigh Valley Somebody in an election year.
Paul, start w/ the man in the mirror and start telling the truth about (hiccup) DA Jim Martin.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Doug Reichley was right about DA Jim Martin and The Morning Call "newspaper"
In an in-person meeting with PA State Representative and current Lehigh County Judicial Candidate Doug Reichley shortly after my daughter Sheena was killed by Robert LaBarre in 2006, Doug gave me the most astute advice I've received to date: "Bill, be careful ... Jim Martin has friends at
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Doug Reichley was right about DA Jim Martin and The Morning Call "newspaper"
In an in-person meeting with PA State Representative and current Lehigh County Judicial Candidate Doug Reichley shortly after my daughter Sheena was killed by Robert LaBarre in 2006, Doug gave me the most astute advice I've received to date: "Bill, be careful ... Jim Martin has friends at
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
A Proposal for Patch Pixie Janine Iamunno
Recently, LVS caught AOL Patch editorial assistant Jerry Brahm deleting my verifiably factual Patch comments on Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin and concealing the truth @ AOL Patch Lehigh Valley-- just like The Morning Call "newspaper" does. Then, to add to Patch's exposed mortified embarrassment, one of AOL Patch's Lehigh Valley editors (for now) Mariella Savidge broke ranks and praised me.
Now, we've caught AOL Patch Lehigh Valley w/ its pants down (and on fire) for a third time, and as a 'make good,' I want to be selected-honored w/ a gig as an unpaid AOL Patch Lehigh Valley blogger. Yeah.
Here's my proposal ...
Email, Outgoing, to Lehigh Valley Patch Regional Editor Susan Koomar (left), editorial gopher/hatchet "man" Jerry Brahm, Patch VP of Communications Janine Iamunno, and Lower Macungie Patch Editor Mariella Savidge.
On June 29, 2011 at 7:39am Bill Villa wrote ...
Recently, Lehigh Valley Patch publicly solicited for bloggers, and I applied, to all 11 local Patch editors, but I was ignored by 8 or 9 of them and denied by the rest. The reason I was given (by 2-3 in lock-step Lehigh Valley Patch editors via email) is because I live in Allentown ... and there's no Allentown Patch.
On June 29, 2011 at 7:39am Bill Villa wrote ...
Recently, Lehigh Valley Patch publicly solicited for bloggers, and I applied, to all 11 local Patch editors, but I was ignored by 8 or 9 of them and denied by the rest. The reason I was given (by 2-3 in lock-step Lehigh Valley Patch editors via email) is because I live in Allentown ... and there's no Allentown Patch.
I told the Patch editors I was from "Lehigh County" and wanted to write on county-wide issues.
They told me Patch wanted their bloggers to write about issues specific to the area they lived in-- Emmaus bloggers writing about Emmaus stuff, South Whitehall bloggers writing about South Whitehall matters. Etc.
Patch then signed up Trexlertown blogger and admitted Villas cyber stalker Chris Casey to write about county-wide issues, and seemingly, whatever strikes his quasi-literate fancy.
See Chris Casey's poorly written Patch blog posts on May 17, 18, 23, and 31, 2011.
Q. What's with this glaringly exposed Double Standard?
And, what would be the down-side of enlisting me to write about DA Jim Martin for Lehigh Valley Patch in an election year?
They told me Patch wanted their bloggers to write about issues specific to the area they lived in-- Emmaus bloggers writing about Emmaus stuff, South Whitehall bloggers writing about South Whitehall matters. Etc.
Patch then signed up Trexlertown blogger and admitted Villas cyber stalker Chris Casey to write about county-wide issues, and seemingly, whatever strikes his quasi-literate fancy.
See Chris Casey's poorly written Patch blog posts on May 17, 18, 23, and 31, 2011.
Q. What's with this glaringly exposed Double Standard?
And, what would be the down-side of enlisting me to write about DA Jim Martin for Lehigh Valley Patch in an election year?
Bill Villa
610.428.xxxx
P.S. Mariella, you promised me a follow-up phone call last week. I'm still waiting ...
610.428.xxxx
P.S. Mariella, you promised me a follow-up phone call last week. I'm still waiting ...
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UpDate: Despite several polite follow-up e-inquiries, I've yet to hear a peep of response back from anyone at Patch. Apparently they're all making believe that they are "ignoring" my excellent questions-- just like The Morning Call "newspaper" does.
[Update] In an email dated October 24, 2011, Patch's VP of "Communications" (for now) Janine Iamunno wrote: "Mr. Villa, we've suspended [i.e., comment-muzzled] your Patch account." Editor's Note: Not surprising, I guess, that Lehigh Valley Patch's mostly ex-Morning Call editors would borrow a page from the Morning Call's truth-muzzling playbook to shut me up and protect DA Jim Martin.
[Update] In an email dated February 8, 2012, Patch's VP of "Communications" (for now) Janine Iamunno wrote: "Mr. Villa, please remove my photo and the associated false claim of 'censorship' from your site immediately."
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