[mikester]

...for a pair of police officers who witnessed a car accident that ended in the death of one of the victims NOT to show up to the manslaughter trial?

My friend Roger, married in February of 2008 was killed in late August of the same year in a head on collision at 5:30am on the way to the airport. His wife, in the car with him suffered her own injuries but Roger's injuries were significant. A few days later he was removed from life support.

Roger was a good man, no - a great man. The best kind of friend a man could hope for and his wife, man I feel for her.

The first set of charges were dismissed. Apparently all of the subpoenas were not served and for whatever reason the police officers could not make the trial - the case of course depended on their testimony that they saw the driver and witnessed the accident.

The second trial, dismissed again - lack of witnesses to put this guy in his car.

He gets away with it - completely.

Most of our friends blame the legal system as a whole, I am not willing to go that far. I lay the blame on these witnesses, my understanding is that they new of the trial and that they needed to be there. They weren't and because of that - this guy gets off.

It reeks.