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Wayne,<br><br>ISP's leadership didn't need this to lose credibility:<br><br>http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/10/02/v-print/1823495/contradictions-equal-perjuryor.html<br><br>This article is by Tom McCabe, an excellent criminal defense lawyer in Boise. The fact that the ISP expert contradicted himself under oath in two different cases only came to light because the same lawyer in the state appellate PD office in Boise ended up assigned to both cases, and caught the contradictory evidence.<br><br>It is very rare for an appeals court to throw out a conviction in these circumstances. But ISP's leadership concluded there was no problem with the testimony.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: deco@moscow.com<br>To: Vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:40:25 -0800<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] megaloads results in injury accident<br><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Add the ISP to IDT of those agencies citizens
cannot trust to be honest and forthright. This kind of dishonesty taints
all ISP accident reports, past and future.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">I'm opposed to the megaloads primarily because
they are part of a chain the will be the worst human and environmental disaster
ever. But on local grounds, they also appear to be a huge inconvenient
pain in the ass for regular highway travelers wasting ordinary travelers' time
and fuel -- and also giving rise to some road rage and its
consequences.</font></div>
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<div style="font-color:black"><b>From:</b> <a title="london@moscow.com" href="mailto:london@moscow.com">Bill London</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:09 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</a> </div>
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<h1><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:18pt">The Daily News
reports (page 3A in today’s issue, Thurs) the first automobile injury accident
on Highway 95 resulting from the megaloads. (see the text
below)</font></font></h1>
<h1><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:18pt">A flagger was
stationed on Highway 95 near Viola. One driver stopped to find out what to
do, and a second driver struck the first. Of course, it was an accident,
but the Idaho State Police were quick to blame the drivers and hold the
megaloads blameless.</font></font></h1>
<h1><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:18pt">“It had nothing
to do with the loads,” the Idaho State Police representative
said.</font></font></h1>
<h1><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:18pt">That’s
ridiculous. The flagger was there ONLY because of the megaloads moving on
the highway that night. The flagger’s position was the vital first step in
a chain of causality resulting in the accident.</font></font></h1>
<h1><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:18pt">The Idaho State
Police are being paid huge piles of overtime cash to guide the megaloads through
Idaho. That has certainly tainted their sense of responsibility, and shown
Idaho residents that their own police can be bought.</font></font></h1>
<h1><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:18pt">BL</font></font></h1>
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<h1><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:18pt">Two injured in
U.S. 95 collision </font></font></h1>
<strong><font face="Times New Roman">Staff report | Posted: Thursday,
November 10, 2011 12:00 am </font></strong><BR>
<font face="Times New Roman">Two Idaho men were released from the hospital
following a rear-end collision Tuesday night near Viola on U.S. Highway 95 that
law enforcement claims occurred when one driver stopped to talk with a flagger
awaiting Imperial Oil shipments bound for the Idaho/Montana border.</font><BR>
<font face="Times New Roman">According to the Latah County Sheriff's Office,
Shawn Dewitt, 36, of Princeton, stopped his vehicle on the highway to
investigate flashing lights belonging to a flagger awaiting three shipments of
refinery equipment and ask how he should proceed.</font><BR>
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voluntarily stopped to talk to the flagger around 11 p.m., and had not been
requested to do so. Dewitt's vehicle was then struck from behind by a vehicle
driven by Frank Bybee, 33, of Desmet, Idaho, according to the sheriff's
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<font face="Times New Roman">"It had nothing to do with the loads or being
confused by the lights," said Richardson. "It was just driver
error."</font><BR></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Richardson said the collision closed part of the
highway, which was cleared around 1 a.m. after an investigation of the crash
scene was conducted. Bybee and Dewitt were both transported to Gritman Medical
Center where they were treated and released, according to a hospital
spokeswoman. Both of their vehicles were towed and no citations have been
issued.</font><BR></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Richardson said ISP was first to arrive on the
scene, but the sheriff's office is acting as the investigating agency as the
state police had been assigned to covering the road Tuesday night as part of a
contract with Mammoet, the shipping contractor for Imperial Oil. Those shipments
were delayed by the accident for about an hour.</font><BR></div></div></div>
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