Pueblo leader pleads not guilty for fatal accident
Friday, June 26, 2009
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Law
A leader of
Pojoaque
Pueblo in New Mexico pleaded not guilty in connection with a fatal hit and run on the reservation.
Lt. Governor Linda Diaz was indicted with a felony charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident and failing to render aid. She is accused of striking Phillip Espinoza, a non-Indian man, along a highway in early April.
Diaz didn't call tribal police until a day after the incident.
Get the Story:
Local news in brief: Diaz pleads not guilty in hit-and-run [1st item]
(The Santa Fe New Mexican 6/26)
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