New Hampshire Murder Weapon

[Elderberry]

The Aging Rebel 1/22/2020

There has been a small development in the case against Volodymyr Zhukovskyy that suggests what prosecutors expect Zhukovskyy to be.

Zhukovskyy is the 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant who drove his pickup truck and trailer into a pack of motorcycles in Randolph, New Hampshire on June 21. 2019. The bikers were were all members or associates of the JarHeads Motorcycle Club. The dead are Jo-Ann and Edward Corr; Michael Ferazzi; Albert Mazza; Daniel Pereira; Desma Oakes; and Aaron Perry.

Earlier this week, Coos County, New Hampshire prosecutors asked Judge Peter Bornstein permission to “conduct a Further examination” of the truck Zhukovskyy was driving when the tragedy occurred.They want a company named Crash Labs Inc.to “conduct testing or take additional measurements of the truck” and “return the vehicle to its previous post-crash state.”

Zhukovskyy seems to have a very limited number of defenses at trial. One would be to argue that he was innocently incapacitated in some way – say by a mental illness that prevented him from knowing what he was doing. The other obvious defense is to blame the truck. That seems to be where this case is headed.

More: http://www.agingrebel.com/17831

[PeteS in CA]

Since it's the prosecution who has asked that the truck be examined, I think either the defense has requested it be done through the prosecution, or the prosecution wants information to confirm or contradict a defective truck defense.