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Drunk Cop Kills Woman, Cops Arrest Scapegoat

By Lawrence Taylor

This one pretty much speaks for itself, too: Victim’s Family: Wrong man Charged Lake County, CA.  Feb. 19  –  It’s very unusual in a manslaughter case for a victim’s family to speak out for the defendant. But that’s what’s happening in the fatal boat crash case in Clear Lake… Lynn Thornton died after a horrible boat crash in April of 2006. She and her friends were wrapping up a sunset cruise — it was a still night with little wind — when a power boat roared out of the darkness, launching over the sailboat, snapping the mast and crushing the cabin. The person driving the power boat was the No. 2 man in the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, Russell Perdock. "Mr. Perdock just slammed into ‘em, he wasn’t paying attention and it resulted in the death of my sister," said Thomsen...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).