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Fatal Cottonwood school bus crash trial moved to Willmar (MN illegal update)
KSTP.com ^ | 6/10/08 | KSTP.com/Ap

Posted on 06/12/2008 11:43:13 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

The trial of a woman charged in a fatal school bus crash has been moved from Marshall to Willmar.

Lyon County District Judge David Peterson granted the change of venue Wednesday. He also scheduled the trial of Olga Marina Franco del Cid of Minneota to begin July 28 at the Kandiyohi County courthouse.

Four children from Lakeview School in Cottonwood died when a van ran a stop sign and hit their bus Feb. 19. Prosecutors say Franco, 34, was driving the van, but she claims it was her boyfriend. He hasn't been found.

In his order Wednesday, the judge wrote that many Lyon County residents were family or friends of those injured or killed in the crash, or of the emergency personnel who responded to the crash.

Peterson also said, "In the end it is simply too much to ask a community to grieve for its children and then a few months later sit with dispassionate judgment on the very case giving rise to that grief."

Franco has been in the Lyon County Jail since her arrest Feb. 20. She's charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: alianismorales; alianissmorales; cottonwood; illegalimmigrant; olgafranco; olgamarinafranco
A minor victory for the defense, a huge win for the prosecution. The trial stays rural and away from the sanctuary cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul, where the defense wanted the trial moved.....
1 posted on 06/12/2008 11:43:14 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
He also scheduled the trial of Olga Marina Franco del Cid of Minneota to begin July 28 at the Kandiyohi County courthouse.


"Hey Guys, This One Is REALLY Funny."
"It's About The Illegal Bus Driver ....."

2 posted on 06/12/2008 12:02:43 PM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: Condor51; indylindy; Tennessee Nana; calcowgirl; AuntB; TommyDale

When she was nabbed, she gave another name.

She apparently had several identities.

Is no doubt registered to vote under several names in different precincts AND collecting US govt benefits under all her stolen ID’s.

Probably has several beachfront condos and a pile of money waiting for her in mexico.

She’ll go free after Juan McCain writes a letter on her behalf, promises her a presidential pardon, amnesty and $5 million in reparations.


3 posted on 06/12/2008 12:27:52 PM PDT by Liz (Taxpayer: one who works for the govt but doesn't have to take a civil service test. R. Reagan.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Is this the one where the boyfriend was driving, and the impact simultaneously threw him out the passenger door, and threw her into the driver’s seat just in time for the steering wheel to pin her into place until the EMTs got there?


4 posted on 06/12/2008 12:29:08 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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But she must have her rights under the COTUS..

/s


5 posted on 06/12/2008 1:02:59 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

I keep wondering what would have happened to her in Mexico if she had killed four kids.


6 posted on 06/12/2008 1:35:36 PM PDT by Liz (Taxpayer: one who works for the govt but doesn't have to take a civil service test. R. Reagan.)
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....her boyfriend was driving, and the impact simultaneously threw him out the passenger door, and threw her into the driver’s seat just in time for the steering wheel to pin her into place until the EMTs got there....

Of course. Any liberal can plainly see how that could happen.

That's what I don't like about conservatives....they are so unreasonable.

7 posted on 06/12/2008 1:43:07 PM PDT by Liz (Taxpayer: one who works for the govt but doesn't have to take a civil service test. R. Reagan.)
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To: Liz

Guatamala.


8 posted on 06/12/2008 5:42:20 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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