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Dot8911 t1_j37ljd7 wrote

Reply to comment by urbanevol in Greenwich Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested in Florida by CT_EXAMINER

There was another fatal crash in Norwalk in November and it took the police one month to arrest the driver, who happend to be hispanic.

https://patch.com/connecticut/norwalk/driver-charged-fatal-norwalk-crash-police

If you are arrested, you have the right to go before a judge and challenge the legality of your detention (habeas corpus). The police can't just hold someone indefinitely while they figure out what to charge them with. And in cases like this, it is really important to get the charges right because there are no do-overs (no double jeopardy) if the police screw it up.

Better to wait a bit to make the arrest than to have the driver get off on a technicality.

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urbanevol t1_j37wufl wrote

This case is not very comparable. The Norwalk crash was a single vehicle in which the people that died were passengers in the car that crashed. The driver also went to the hospital. In the Stamford case, the driver ran over two pedestrians, fled the scene, and hid from the police. A fatal hit-and-run is enough to arrest someone. Charges can be added later.

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Dot8911 t1_j386alw wrote

My point is the delay has to do with the due process of law. If you compare the list of charges they are comparable cases.

Also who cares if the victims were passengers or pedestrians, all of them deserve justice.

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urbanevol t1_j38abfd wrote

Where did I say that the Norwalk victims didn't deserve justice?

The cases would be comparable if the Norwalk driver had run away from the scene of the accident and hid from police.

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