PA State Trooper Angers Many Before Retiring

If the posts by educator1209 are truly the troopers then I say, sounds good to me!!! I am not a fan of all the charging people criminally for any instance that people die. Accidents happen and they are JUST ACCIDENTS. I am not only speaking of traffic accidents either. I still believe the BART Officer that shot the disorderly T U R D on the subway ramp was charged for political reasons when you can clearly see by the video it was an accident. This society has become to quick to charge people criminally for everything. I hope it never happens but if the people posting the comments under the artical are ever in an ACCIDENT that causes the death of another I would be willing to bet a paycheck they would change their tune about criminal charges. Sounds to me like the Trooper (very experienced Trooper) made a decision based on the facts and laws. Looks like the DA was receiving some grief over the disposition of the case by those that do not know or understand the investigation process and the laws in place. People tend to get all emotional and do not care about the facts and probibly made comments to the DA. Instead of the DA explaining the situation he put the Trooper out there as the bad guy........I mean, why not blame the big bad police officer....everyone else does when things do not go their way!!! Sounds like political C R A P to me and I have already spent to much time on the subject.

The officer posted various comments, but this is the first one:

"This is the person that made that decision to charge the PENNDOT driver with the summary and it was my decision to make after reviewing the evidence and accident reconstruction. My decision was based on those investigations, the way the law is constructed as to proving gross negeligence and past practices.
You can not make your decisions based on political agenda, political pressures or how bad you feel for the loss that the family has had in the other car. No matter what my charge, it does not take away from the amount of money the family will receive because if I am not mistaken there is something in the statute that says no matter what you sue for, there is a million dollar cap on any lawsuits involving PENNDOT.
You people saying about a fix, this guy should be thrown in jail, conspiracy and all the other things, do not know how the law reads and what is required to make a criminal case, and this by all means did not come close to at least two other fatal crashes as to any type of gross negligence in which Chad Chenot made the decision to only file summary citations on those cases. You all have to remember, this was the same district attorney that had the mother arrested for going onto the bus because she thought something was wrong with the child and then withdrew the charges and started back peddling. Now lets take a look at his anger issues, there is no reason he needed to contact the media after hanging up with me and go on a tangent providing my personal name and everything else he said, all he really needed to do was announce to the media that a decision was made and the citation was the outcome. This is also the same peson that sat in a meeting with me, the station commander and the accident reconstructionist and made the comment that I don't think we could win this case, but I was thinking about charging him anyway. Now is that the type of person that should be in that office."

Sounds, looks and smells bad, but what is the other side of the story? Need to investigate and determine why the Trooper did what he did and if there was any connection or collusion between him and the truck driver...

I would think that if some form of collusion can be proven that modified charges to include conspiracy could be brought forward in criminal court . Also the old fail safe of bringing Civil Charges against both parties are still viable. Not enough information to make an informed decision without all the evidence , it does however from all outward appearances "STINK OF COLLUSION OR AS WE USE TO CALL IT THE MONTY HALL DOOR".

I need more information on this....It appears the only person they interviewed was the D.A..