Top, L-R: Sean Mulveyhill, Kayla Narey, Austin Renaud. Bottom, L-R: Ashley Longe, Flannery Mullins, Sharon Chanon Velazquez.
Ping
Seems like a very normal request.
I don’t know the exact legal term, but I am aware there is a law that states it doesn’t matter what is in the victims medical history, if your actions lead to their death. Meaning if you hold up a gas station and a person with a heart conditon drops dead from shock, you are responsible for their death, their medical state is not a factor.
typical scumbag attorney move. may the guilty all burn for their actions.
I haven’t been following this closely, but it doesn’t sound unreasonable to me.
Remember--this is a suicide. Not a murder. What you have here are people being accused of being mean teens. Any of you have any teens who were mean?
Seems to me that if they are charging that this bulling caused her to commit suicide, the defense should be able to probe other possible reason’s for her taking her own life.
All kids get bullied at school from time to time, and it may have had nothing to do with her suicide.
Top, L-R: Sean Mulveyhill, Kayla Narey, Austin Renaud. Bottom, L-R: Ashley Longe, Flannery Mullins, Sharon Chanon Velazquez.
On Jan. 7, according to the documents, Prince went to a school administrator after learning that one of the defendants, Flannery Mullins, had told fellow students that she was going to “beat Phoebe up” and that she “needed to watch out at break after second block.”
The documents do not reveal the official to whom Prince spoke or provide details of the conversation.
A witness who was interviewed by investigators said Prince had gone to administrators because she was “scared and wanted to go home.” After the meeting, the witness said Prince returned to class, and said that no action was going to be taken and that “she was still going to get beat up.”
In a recent interview, Superintendent Gus Sayer said school administrators were not aware of the bullying until Jan. 7, a week before Prince committed suicide. On that day, two teachers reported separate bullying incidents to the principal, Sayer said.
In one incident, a student walked into Prince’s classroom and yelled at her. In the other, a teacher overheard several students in the cafeteria making remarks about Prince “that appeared to be threatening.”
“Even though they weren’t made to her directly, he reported that to the principal,” Sayer said.
The principal “took immediately disciplinary action against both students,” Sayer said. He would not say what kind of action was taken, citing school privacy rules.
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/court_documents_phoebe_prince.html
HIPAA prevents the release of medical information to other than the patient.
Even IF she was unstable, that’s all the more reason that she shouldn’t have been bullied by these bastards.