8/20/1992 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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BOARD OF SELECTMEN Page 3 MINUTES-SPECIAL MEETING • THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1992 AMENDMENTS AND CLARIFICATION TO SPECIAL MEETING: Page three, sixth paragraph: Attorney Avery: One word about what came about in court is appropriate. District Attorney Rollins had available, much of the same although perhaps not all of the same evidence that we had available in the civil case, and much of that evidence was presented to Judge Ryan and the reason that I felt that there was such a grave injustice is that much of the actual evidence of that case was ignored by the Judge at the inquest . What came out at the civil trial explains Attorney Avery was that many eye witnesses testified and the evidence of all of the photographs and the video tape evidence that was taken at the scene . The actual concrete evidence of where blood was found in the car , where glass was found in the car . Where glass was found on Mr. Hendrick ' s body. And these factors were presented to an eminent specialist, a former FBI agent and a specialist from the Institute of . . . Sciences from Dallas , Texas and he testified . By the way this is a man who usually testifies for the government , usually testifies for the police, usually testifies for the county looked at the evidence in this case and he testified that there was simply no doubt about it that David Hendricks was shot and killed through the side window of his automobile in a second round of shots . That there had been a clear period of time between the first round of shots and the second round of shots that was obvious from the blood that was found inside the car and where it was found . And he had no question about the fact that this man was shot from the side and at very close range . I think the Hendricks family feels that that is new evidence states' Attorney Avery. Page seven, paragraph seven: Typo -%%throughkto be corrected in the first sentence . Page seven, eighth paragraph: I think the Hendricks family feels that this evidence has to be considered by the Town now indicates Attorney Avery. That is the reason I wrote to Ms. Caffyn last week on August 17, 1992 advising her of the name of the stenographer who took down the proceedings of the trial. And suggesting that I think in as much as the Chief and Selectmen didn ' t attend the trial , they ought to order the transcripts of this trial particularly Dr. Stones testimony, the experts involved , they ought to study that and they ought to reopen the issue of whether or not Sergeant Mace is a safe person to be on the Police force in this community states Attorney Avery. Page four, first paragraph: Second sentence, delete the word "of" and insert the word "have" to read : The Selectmen should have attended the trial for at least two days. •