Posted on 01/25/2013 9:12:50 AM PST by RummyChick
HARTFORD -- The prosecutor investigating the Newtown school massacre told a new panel Thursday not to expect a final report on the Dec. 14 slaughter anytime soon.
Danbury State's Attorney Stephen J. Sedensky III announced that while no criminal prosecution seems likely to emerge from the mass murder and suicide, he wants to suppress much of the evidence from the public anyway.
"This is an ongoing criminal investigation, for which I have obtained extensions of time from the Superior Court to keep documents sealed, so that the investigation may continue unencumbered by distractions," Sedensky said.
"The rules of professional responsibility for prosecutors require that I take steps to prevent publicity that would have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing a potential prosecution," he said.
In a brief appearance before Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's 16-member Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, Sedensky said that he expects the State Police report on the shootings to be several months away.
"Of course, if the investigation reveals that there should be a criminal prosecution, then that prosecution would take precedence over any report," Sedensky told the panel of municipal officials, mental health experts, security professionals and social-service providers.
"Though no such prosecution currently appears on the horizon, I am sure you can appreciate that all leads need to be investigated and evidence examined before final decisions and statements are made," he said.
He offered to meet privately with a representative of the advisory panel to provide information that he might not release to the public.
Sedensky said that during the first week after the shootings, federal, state and local police worked around the clock investigating the crime scenes at Sandy Hook Elementary School, at the 36 Yogananda St. home of Nancy Lanza, whose son Adam, 20, murdered her before driving her car to the school, and elsewhere.
It will be months before a report is released.
"We are hoping for some time this summer, perhaps in June," said Sedensky, a Newtown resident, adding that details on the mental health of Adam Lanza, are protected from disclosure under privacy regulations and might not be able to be provided to the commission.
Bill Ritter, the former governor of Colorado whose district attorney of Denver investigated the aftermath of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, told the panel the nation is watching.
"You could wind up saving lives at some point in the future," said Ritter, who later became governor and became a target for a deranged gunman who was shot and killed by a state trooper outside his office. "Healing can happen" but it can be a long-term process.
Richard Bonnie, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who was an adviser to the Virginia Tech Review Panel following that 2007 shooting, warned that legislation and regulatory changes can be affected by emotions.
"Tragedy can compromise thoughtful policy making," he said from Virginia.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, in the panel's first meeting Thursday morning, said that the consequence that seems to be separating Newtown from other mass shootings is that momentum for a positive outcome to the crime seems to be gaining every day, not fading.
"We must take a serious look at public safety, particularly school safety, so our children can grow up and go to school without the fear of violence in a culture that does in fact glorify violence," Malloy said.
"We need to have a discussion about stopping that," Malloy said. "The recommendations you will craft over the coming weeks and months will no doubt take us toward that goal: better mental health, better safety in our schools and a system that is set up to stop the glorification of the violence."
Later in the afternoon, after Sedensky's testimony, Malloy, a former prosecutor, was asked by reporters about the reticence to release more details of the shooting.
"I think there's always this situation where a prosecutor is trying to make the right balance," Malloy said.
"This was an attack so outrageous, in the killing of 20 six-year-olds that in many ways it's going to have an imprint, the likes of which I can remember where I was, in the classroom, when someone came in to say President Kennedy was shot," Malloy said. "I think this is that kind of event. So I think he needs to take the time necessary to conclude the investigation. Having said that, I would hope that as little time is necessary. It's more important to get it right than to rush out a report."
On Friday morning, a legislative subcommittee looking into issues of school security after the Sandy Hook shootings will hold a public hearing starting at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2-C of the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
Secrecy makes perfect sense to me at this point. Computer and internet forensics take longer than all the other stuff, especially since the hard drive was smashed up.
That means they have to work backwards with the ISP provider to identify his internet traffic and go through all of it. That is going to take some time.
Playing stupid and keeping quiet about what they’ve found so far is the right thing to do on the off chance that there was some co-conspirator or someone who encouraged or pushed him towards this act.
Yapping about it publicly would just tip them off and give them time to disappear.
But you won’t convince the conspiracy minded that rational precaution is anything other than proof of their cherished conspiracy.
So you admit there is more to it. That’s all we are saying.
So you agree that the current official narrative is bogus?
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What is it you want to see?? some dead bodies?? some pools of blood???
“So you admit there is more to it. That’s all we are saying.”
What? How the heck do you read that into my statement?
They have to do an investigation before they can know with any real certainty whether Lanza did or did not have any co-conspirators or accomplices. That doesn’t mean that he had any, it just means that they have to do an investigation before they can say whether he did or not. So, until they can determine that, it would be very foolish to just release everything to the public.
I made this brief list of links that answer the most asked questions regarding Sandy Hook. I just got tired of going back and pulling these up and wanted them all in one place. Please add whatever I missed:
Interview with one of two mothers who witnessed the kids running down to the firehouse, the Lanza’s Honda doors opened [indication that it had already been searched], the broken glass at the front door, the unusual quiet just before gunshots rang out from inside the school, and the kids subsequently evacuating the building:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptbd6qRY358
Video at 0:24 of the broken glass front door:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/us/connecticut-shooting-adam-lanza-barber/index.html
Police dispatch report along with video of the broken glass front window at 0:50 on the video:
http://www.frequency.com/video/broken-glass-at-front-of-sandy-hook/72154872/-/5-85140
Police Dispatch of the Sandy Hook shooting:
http://nhregister.com/articles/2012/12/14/news/doc50cc0897adc1a203744261.txt?viewmode=2
STATE POLICE IDENTIFY WEAPONS USED IN SANDY HOOK
http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?Q=517284&A=4226
Details of shooting at Wikipedia with other resources and links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting
Acording to everything I’ve read (and it’s considerable), he left the rifle in the trunk of the car.
<>Acording to everything I’ve read (and it’s considerable), he left the rifle in the trunk of the car.<>
Please post some of those everythings. Here’s one you obviously missed:
STATE POLICE IDENTIFY WEAPONS USED IN SANDY HOOK
http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?Q=517284&A=4226
That’s more than a little vague, and doesn’t jibe with with what I’ve read at other sites, but... whatever.
Yes, I wish I had time to go back and post links to every other article I’ve read, but that would take an enormous amount of time from a busy schedule.
I’m sure if you look around, you can find all sorts of references.
They'll all end up tracing back to articles that are citing the original lone NBC report.
That's leaving aside the nonsense percolating around the conservative blogosphere this past week repeating the original NBC report.
You need to learn to distinguish true, independently sourced "reports" from just a bunch of reports all repeating one wrong "report."
Any links that say other wise are lying links because the police stated this from day one and have not wavered from it at all.
I guess you’ve only been reading the conspiracy stuff, because all the official statements, and all of the reporting after the first day or two has said otherwise. Don’t take my word for it, though, go watch the video yourself, it’s clearly not a rifle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLrxSgkqJQc
Pay particular attention to the video at about 0:06, when the camera zooms in to show a shotgun shell being ejected from the weapon.
No, I don’t believe the official narrative is bogus.
It is incomplete, pending the official report and is further complicated by all the bogus reporting by bloggers, most of whom are probably in it for the ad click money the additional hits bring in when stirring the controversy pot by posting sensationalized material, even when they know it’s crap.
I think it is rational to keep the investigation under wraps until they have finished the computer and internet forensics and are absolutely sure there is no one else implicated in facilitating or urging a psychotic to commit a heinous act.
But the crazoids will continue to insist that common sense is proof of cover-up. It really is tiresome.
Threat of secret prosecution can help keep those that know in line.
http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?Q=517284&A=4226
“#1. Bushmaster .223 caliber— model XM15-E2S rifle with high capacity 30 round magazine”
A single 30 round magazine???
But there were over a hundred rounds fired.
Did he carry in an ammo box and reload the single magazine 3 times in a few minutes?
And the correction and apology is.....where?
Also CBS analyst reporting that 2nd suspect was in custody the following morning.
The MSM and their integrity took a beating on the 15th it appears.
It’s a perfectly trivial matter, of course; however, I defer to your readings.
The rifle was in the car, the rifle was at home, the rifle was here, the rifle was there; none of it - least of all the facts of the case - is going to dissuade the political hacks, media morons, and liberal zealots who have got themselves into a frenzy over the whole thing and who have decided not to let a tragedy, no matter how awful, go to waste in pursuit of their desire to push their agenda.
That, more than anything else, is what should command attention, IMO.
Jungle taped 30 round magazines together — per police sources — and changed them after only firing about half of the load. So he had to have 8? to 10? of them atleast.
The bureaucrats involved in that crime are obviously lying to America about many things. They’re “guilty as hell, and they know it.” Foreign bribes, too, perhaps?
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