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.
I dread the thought of him leaving the rifle in the trunk and taking the 12 gauge instead.
Unless there is to be a public prosecution, that day is a private affair for those involved.
When he had the fire station, the staging area right in his eyesight...
The police broke numerous windows and doors for entry points...Looking at the hole in the front door, it would be inconceivable that someone loaded down with ammo and carrying a rifle would want to bend over and step up and thru that hole in the glass panel...Perhaps he could have reached around thru the glass and opened the door...Not enough info there...
Saw the videos...Looked like 2 'long guns' to me...And a lot of other people...
The point is, Iscool, that the glass window is broken as the videos clearly show.
All of this despite a full month of agnostics, like Mike Powers, calling it a hoax because there was no broken glass in the front of the school.
Like the other article you posted, was it, 'State Police says everyone was killed with an 'assault rifle'???
That's not news, it's an agenda...It's a lie...There was no assault rifle there, by definition...
What about the 'nurse' who claimed Lanza's mother was the best kindergarten teach that that school had ever seen, when we all know that the mother was never a teacher at the school...
What about the two guys who one cop said, 'they're coming at me'???
What about the guy on the ground handcuffed as told by one of the kids???
What about the black car on the tow truck which they claimed was Lanza's but had a different licence plate???
These things are all parts of news video reports but we are told to ignore them...We didn't really see them, I guess...Just believe the final story put out by the talking heads...
When they and you legitimately answer those and the many other questions will the conspiracy go away...
You guys are the ones creating the conspiracy...
There were two guns in the trunk. Anyone telling you different is full of it.
You can see them in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R_ubdjO_dRY
Then where did the two guns come from in this video???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R_ubdjO_dRY
Are you trying to claim the video is fake???
There is only one gun.
The shotgun is cleared and set down by one person, and then taken out of the trunk by the man in white behind him.
Then at the last minute another man in white pulls the grey carrying case/cover out of the trunk.
One shotgun and one grey carrying case removed from the trunk.
That’s it —
Wow — Iscool — all those questions just from my posting a video of the broken glass window that agnostics alleged not to be broken.
What will happen when all those questions of yours that have already been answered again and again get answered again and again???
Here is a better view.
Hear the guy say
“It looks like an assault rifle doesn’t it.”
And you are right, the second item is not a long gun.
If I want to buy a Russian Saiga-12 where do I go to buy one.
Oh look...
http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20120131/171045859.html
“Izhmash, the manufacturer of the legendary Kalashnikov AK-47, will supply Saiga-12 semi-automatic smoothbore shotguns to a number of police forces in the U.S., Izhmash reported on its web site on Tuesday.”
Well, there was one long gun in the trunk, but not a rifle, and I can say that with 100% certainty from what is shown on the video. As for the longer video that shows the guys in the hazmat suits taking a second object out of the trunk, I doubt that is a weapon of any kind.
When they remove the shotgun, the officer handles it first to make sure that it is unloaded and safe to hand over to the crime scene techs. He does no such thing for the second object, letting the tech reach it and pick it up himself. That indicates the second object was not a firearm.
So what? Anytime someone commits a murder with a .38 Police Special, does that mean it was a government op too?
But it clearly isn't. The person in the helicopter doesn't know a shotgun from a rifle -- that was clearly the shotgun.
“When he had the fire station, the staging area right in his eyesight...”
There was no staging area set up at that time. They arrived at his house within a few minutes of the shooting, so the police were probably just arriving at the school around that time.
However, the video cuts in while the clearing of the weapon is in process...Had the other object been a weapon, it may have already been cleared...
I've owned a number of cloth cases of varying types...It just doesn't look like a case to me...
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