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Case delayed after suspect is left paralyzed following a car accident Print
Written by Dee Holzel   
Wednesday, April 14 2010 03:32
WINNEMUCCA — The case involving a 19-year-old man facing prosecution on allegations he attacked another man with a baseball bat last June continues to be delayed due to the extensive injuries the defendant received in a car accident last October. According to court testimony, it now appears the injuries sustained in the single-vehicle rollover left the young man paralyzed from the chest down.

SPJ is withholding the name of the defendant due to his parallel medical conditions.

The defendant was facing prosecution on multiple felonies including battery causing substantial bodily harm, battery with a deadly weapon, and gross misdemeanor injury to/destruction of a vehicle for allegedly using the baseball bat on the victim and his car. 

The allegations go back to June 2009 when the young man was kicked out of a party for fighting with another party-goer.  Witnesses told authorities he came back with his brother and a baseball bat.  During the preliminary hearing last August, the victim said the suspect hit him with the baseball bat so hard it took a metal plate and six screws to fix his broken arm.

The defendant was scheduled for arraignment in 6th Judicial District Court on November 9, but his attorney indicated  he had been seriously injured in a car accident two weeks before and was still hospitalized.  The case has been delayed multiple times while the parties waited to see how the young man would recover from his injuries.

The case was scheduled for a review hearing on Monday (April 14), but the defendant was once again not in court.   According to his attorney, Steve Evenson, the defendant was left paralyzed from the chest down after the vehicle accident. 

It was not clear what the Humboldt County DA's Office was going to do with the case.  Judge Michael Montero ordered the defense to turn over the medical records to the DA's Office.

Evenson explained there was no simple discharge summary; instead, there are hundreds of pages of medical records.
 
The case was rescheduled for a later date to allow the DA's Office to review the medical records.
Last Updated on Wednesday, April 14 2010 04:27
 
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