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Delahunt's Office: Bishop Incident Was Presented To DA As 'Closed Case'
Justin Elliott | February 17, 2010, 12:47PM
Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA)
A spokesman for Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA), who was Norfolk County district attorney when Amy Bishop killed her brother in 1986, tells TPMmuckraker that investigators presented the case to the DA as an open-and-shut accidental shooting.
Spokesman Mark Forest also says that those who were involved in making the decision not to charge Bishop are now asking why information about her behavior after she fled the scene of the shooting -- including demanding a car from a worker at gunpoint -- was left out of a state police report on the incident.
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Amy Bishop
Ex-Police Chief Flips: Maybe Something Was Awry In '86 Bishop Shooting Case
Justin Elliott | February 16, 2010, 12:13PM
Former Braintree Police Chief John Polio
The former Braintree, Mass., chief of police who is said to have ordered Amy Bishop released the day she killed her brother -- and then threatened at least two people with a shotgun while frantically searching for a getaway vehicle -- now says he may have made the wrong decision.
John Polio's new comments in an interview with the Boston Globe are a marked shift from his earlier insistence that the process was handled properly. Polio previously rejected that there was any cover-up and that any records were missing in the 1986 case.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (22) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: Alabama, Amy Bishop, Braintree, Mass., John Polio, Paul Frazier, William Delahunt
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