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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/20...-wife.html
"A retired Los Angeles Police Department detective who worked on several high-profile homicide cases was in a Hawaiian jail Wednesday after he was formally charged with murder for allegedly killing his wife in 2006.
Dan DeJarnette, 59, appeared Tuesday in a Hawaii courtroom after a grand jury indicted him in the slaying of his wife, Yu DeJarnette. He was arrested Monday at his home on the Big Island.
He said at the time of his wife's November 2006 death that he had awakened and found her lying on a lava embankment about 20 feet from the couple’s home in Ka'u on the southern end of island.
She suffered severe head trauma and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. DeJarnette told patrol officers his 56-year-old wife had been hurt in an accident. But an autopsy determined she died from head trauma, and the retired officer was booked on suspicion of murder — and then released because of lack of evidence."
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I don't quite get Hawaii's catch and release procedure. Doesn't that start the speedy trial clock for the State?
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No, the arrest doesn't start the clock; the indictment does. So they hold off on indicting someone until the have the evidence in hand to secure a conviction.
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Ok, Fla rules are different. I guess I'm just used to a system where if you arrest someone and the S.A (prosecutor) declines to file, then you screwed up and didn't do your job right the first time. Meanwhile, the person may have sat in jail for up to 21 days waiting for your affidavit to be reviewed by the S.A. Of course a judge reviewed for P.C. within 24 hrs of the arrest.
If the S.A. declines to file or a judge declines to sign based on the S.A.s information (in turn based on the officers affidavit) then the arresting officer is in some jeopardy of being sued for false arrest.
You could bring someone in for questioning but you tried to make that voluntary. You didn't arrest without P.C. and the expectation that the S.A. would file. The catch and release is just strange to me. I don't think I like it either. Don't arrest me if you don't have enough P.C.
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I'm surprised he made a statments to the police at all. As a police officer I'm sure he's seen thousands of suspects talk themselves into cases. There is nothing to gain by talking to the police. A statement to the police can't be used to exonorate you, only to convict. A detectives job is to investigate leads and form a case, here I think they try to "spoke the rabbit" by arresting them and seeing if they run. I still can't understand why he would make a statement to the police in the first place...
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Originally posted by Rene
I'm surprised he made a statments to the police at all. As a police officer I'm sure he's seen thousands of suspects talk themselves into cases. There is nothing to gain by talking to the police. A statement to the police can't be used to exonorate you, only to convict. A detectives job is to investigate leads and form a case, here I think they try to "spoke the rabbit" by arresting them and seeing if they run. I still can't understand why he would make a statement to the police in the first place...
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I am confused - he was 55 and retired? and he was retired prior to the murder so he would have been 49?
I think even the LAPD "DROP" program starts at age 50 and 25 yrs service so he could not have retired so early and gain the big retirement benefits. But maybe med and he didnt take the DROP benefits.
