Defense In Fatal Toyota Crash Alleges Mistakes (Koua Fong Lee still in jail)

Source: AP

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ― The defense lawyer for a Minnesota man imprisoned for a fatal crash involving a Toyota says his original attorney made serious mistakes in his original trial.

Attorney Brent Schafer is seeking a new trial for Koua Fong Lee, the driver in a 2006 Camry accident in St. Paul that killed three people.

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The story is only 4 paragraphs, so under fair use I used a 2 paragraph limit.

...I doubt that Toyota is at fault here (no evidence to support that) - it is INSANE that someone would be sent to prison for an automobile accident where no one was drunk or impaired - simple, yet tragic accident.

Luckily for the driver, he was driving a Toyota or we would never have heard of him

Yes there is support that it was the Toyota that caused the accident

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/RunawayToyotas/expert-mechanical-defect-found-runaway-toyota-camry-killed/story?id=10667854

Lawyers for Minnesota Man In Prison For Vehicular Manslaughter Say New Inspection Report On His Toyota Strengthens Case to Release Him

By ANGELA M. HILL
May 19, 2010

The expert hired by lawyers for a Minnesota man imprisoned for vehicular manslaughter after his speeding Toyota killed three people has filed a report claiming that he has identified a mechanical flaw that could have caused the accident.

"This makes our case even stronger," said Bob Hilliard, an attorney for Koua Fong Lee, 36, who is serving an eight-year prison sentence. Hilliard hopes to convince Ramsey County, Minnesota prosecutors to free Lee from prison pending a new trial.

After inspecting Lee's 1996 Camry, Richard F. Dusek, the Michigan-based expert hired by Hilliard and co-counsel Brent Schafer, has filed an official report stating that the vehicle's throttle cable was stuck and could have held the throttle open, and that analysis of the rear brake light shows that the brakes were depressed at the time of the crash. Lee has always said that his brakes were not working and his accelerator was stuck on the Sunday afternoon in June 2006 when he plowed into a St. Paul intersection at more than 70 MPH and struck another car.

during his 2007 trial that Lee must have stepped on the gas instead of the brake. That's contrary to what Lee testified..."

Amazing, perhaps you should be testifying against the man as you seem to possess evidence not yet entered.