I tried not to get into this, but after last night I can’t just
sit back and take anymore poor Mr. Orabuena. First off, my
brother’s name was never David Judnick
– his name is Joseph. Your reporter Jed Logan can’t even get
that right. He did the initial report July 6, and had the name
right. Now he calls him David!
Poor Mr. Orabuena has suffered enough. What has our family been
doing? My parents lost their son, just down the road from their
home on McMahon Road.
I tried not to get into this, but after last night I can’t just sit back and take anymore poor Mr. Orabuena. First off, my brother’s name was never David Judnick – his name is Joseph. Your reporter Jed Logan can’t even get that right. He did the initial report July 6, and had the name right. Now he calls him David!
Poor Mr. Orabuena has suffered enough. What has our family been doing? My parents lost their son, just down the road from their home on McMahon Road.
My son not only lost his uncle, but he lost his $20,000 V-Rod Harley, which he only had for a year. My sister-in-law lost her husband; his daughter and son lost their father; I lost my brother, all because Mr. Orabuena couldn’t wait to make his left turn. Maybe my brother was going a little fast, but how many other people drive over the speed limit on Fairview Road?
All this political garbage between Arthur Cantu and the DA’s office has done nothing to help this case. We all have had to endure all the ugly letters to the editor about the DA and several references to our case. We have suffered a great loss, and all we want is to see justice done.
We have seen Mr. Orabuena’s police record (given to us with his police report of the accident by the highway patrol) and we do not want to see him use poor judgment and cause the injury or death of another innocent victim.
This trial is just another way for the defense to blast the DA, and here we sit in the middle. How can a fair jury be selected when people are made to feel like this is a racial problem and a waste of taxpayer’s money? Why does the press have to always bring up negative, unhappy things?
And then the new editor of the Free Lance writes an editorial about something he doesn’t really know about. What about the unfairness to our family and my brother’s wife and children? We have also been through hell the last four months while the defense attacks the DA’s office and we sit here in the middle.
Aren’t you readers sick of all this dirt being thrown around about the DA, about the Sheriff’s Department, about our local legal system? Well let me tell you, it all sucks!
The bottom line here is that Mr. Orabuena did make a left turn to cause this accident. If he had used better judgment and waited until the oncoming vehicle had passed, he wouldn’t have been arrested for vehicular manslaughter, my brother would still be alive and we wouldn’t be going through all of this stuff.
Judy Rider,
Hollister
