Quality Of Defense At Issue In Fatal Toyota Crash (Koua Fong Lee)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: wcco

Reporting James Schugel ST. PAUL (WCCO) ―


Koua Fong Lee is serving an eight-year prison sentence for the 2006 crash that killed three people. Lee insists he tried to stop his 1996 Toyota Camry.

Could a new trial make a difference for Koua Fong Lee? It depends on who you ask.

Lee's attorneys claimed in testimony on Wednesday that their client's original trial attorney didn't represent him fairly and accurately.

That attorney, Tracy Eichhorn-Hicks, told WCCO late Wednesday that he believes Lee should get a new trial. He now believes the sudden, unintended acceleration theory surrounding Lee's car is true.

"The sudden, unintended acceleration explains everything," he told Judge Joanne Smith late Wednesday afternoon during an evidentiary hearing on a defense motion for a new trial.


Read more: http://wcco.com/local/toyota.crash.hearing.2.1843468.html

[truedelphi]

1. As someone who experienced sudden acceleration w/ my Ford Van

Just this spring, I feel for the guy.

The only thing that saved me from being in this man's shoes was that it happened to me at a point in my day trip that I was surrounded by miles and miles of empty miles.

Had it occurred forty minutes later, when I would have been driving around in a busy downtown area, I too could be sitting in jail for shortening the lives of several people.

Here is hoping he gets a new trial.