04-18-2012, 03:50 PM
Judge: Bob Bashara must give handwriting samples without his attorney
3:03 PM, April 18, 2012
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Murder suspect Bob Bashara does not have the right to have his attorney or other representative in the room when he gives handwriting samples to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.
Presiding Judge Timothy Kenny ruled against defense attorney David Griem’s effort to be present or to have a representative present when Bashara gives sample signatures and notes.
Kenny said Bashara is not yet a defendant so there is “no legal right for his attorney to appear over the shoulder of the investigators.” Kenny said this is not a critical stage of the investigation and “this court does not run or supervise investigations.”
Outside court, Griem said that this was “just one battle. Mostly likely there is a war to be fought here.”
Griem said the whole legal set-to was unnecessary because he and Bashara most likely would have stipulated to identifying the signatures, letters and checks that the investigators have.
He also said that wanting to keep the thing behind closed doors “tells us something – that they don’t want anyone watching.”
As he left on the elevator with Bashara, Griem said, “In this dog-and-pony show, the dog lost and the pony won.”
Prosecutors made no comments. A date will be set later for Bashara to give the handwriting and signature samples.
Handyman Joe Gentz has been charged with murder and conspiracy in the death of Bashara’s wife Jane, who was found strangled in her Mercedes SUV in January.
Source: http://www.freep.com/article/20120418/NE...s-attorney
3:03 PM, April 18, 2012
Murder suspect Bob Bashara does not have the right to have his attorney or other representative in the room when he gives handwriting samples to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.
Presiding Judge Timothy Kenny ruled against defense attorney David Griem’s effort to be present or to have a representative present when Bashara gives sample signatures and notes.
Kenny said Bashara is not yet a defendant so there is “no legal right for his attorney to appear over the shoulder of the investigators.” Kenny said this is not a critical stage of the investigation and “this court does not run or supervise investigations.”
Outside court, Griem said that this was “just one battle. Mostly likely there is a war to be fought here.”
Griem said the whole legal set-to was unnecessary because he and Bashara most likely would have stipulated to identifying the signatures, letters and checks that the investigators have.
He also said that wanting to keep the thing behind closed doors “tells us something – that they don’t want anyone watching.”
As he left on the elevator with Bashara, Griem said, “In this dog-and-pony show, the dog lost and the pony won.”
Prosecutors made no comments. A date will be set later for Bashara to give the handwriting and signature samples.
Handyman Joe Gentz has been charged with murder and conspiracy in the death of Bashara’s wife Jane, who was found strangled in her Mercedes SUV in January.
Source: http://www.freep.com/article/20120418/NE...s-attorney