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Paul Stracci and J. Michael Woods, Martinez’s attorneys, filed a motion Monday for certification for interlocutory appeal because Newton County Circuit Court Judge Jeryl Leach, who is presiding over the case, denied the motion to dismiss “without specific findings of fact or conclusions of law.”
Indiana courts have addressed issues of undue and prejudicial influence on a grand jury, but "none square completely with the unique circumstances of this case," the defense said.
The sheriff is accused of driving an unmarked Jeep TrackHawk at up to 50 mph over the speed limit last fall as two Crown Point officers chased him with their
A special judge rejected the Lake County sheriff's motion to dismiss his indictment on a felony count of resisting law enforcement and misdemeanor reckless driving.
The indictment states that Martinez “did knowingly or intentionally flee” from Crown Point police and that he “did recklessly operate a motor vehicle by driving at such an unreasonably high rate of speed as to endanger the safety or property of others.”