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THURSDAY NOTES

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DO IT AGAIN! - Stephen Olenchak, former Davie cop, was cleared of the most serious count of sexual battery by a jury today, after six hours of deliberations.  They came back guilty on the second count (digital penetration), carrying a max of fifteen years.  Read all about it here.  What hasn't been reported yet is the strong likelihood of a new trial being granted, after reports that jury members left behind printouts of independent and illegal internet research in the jury room.  Expect motions to be filed, and arguments for Olenchak's release pending a new trial.  Great work by soon to be ex-attorney John Fry, and the SBU ASAs.  Yet another example of the Sexual Battery Unit getting the job done (SBU's Justin Griffis also secured something like seven counts carrying life sentences before Michelle Towbin-Singer today), which is why Satz usually feeds misbehaving LEO's to the softball lobbing pros over at the Special Prosecutions Unit, or SPU (think Grady, etc...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on December 02, 2010 (boomark / email).