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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (930)	4/17/2001 5:03:28 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 1397

I would just like to point out that, by law, I (and the Hartford Courant) could have requested information under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act at any time. Despite my criticism of the atrocious way the New Haven police handled the case from the outset, I still felt obligated to give the new Sullivan-less team (recall it was Capt. Brian Sullivan who headed the Jovin investigation; he is now facing prosecution for withholding evidence in another murder case and has been terminated from the New Haven police) a reasonable amount of time to atone (i.e. apologize to the Jovins, to Van de Velde, and to the community that they screwed up and that they were starting from square one). I also wanted to give Andy Rosenzweig, the private investigator, time to get his investigation up and running at full speed. I'm not saying that the release of any documents months or years ago would have jeopardized the solving of the case, I'm just saying I thought it best to err on the side of caution. The reason why the time is right and why it is imperative the public have access to police documents is that it has become clear the problem is Chief Wearing, who doesn't appear to be leaving anytime soon. It has become clear in recent weeks that the police knew from the outset that Suzanne Jovin had made it into and out of a convenience store, two full blocks away from where she was reportedly last seen alive, and that a brown or tan van was parked in front of the same unusual spot where her body was found. Had the police made this information public right away, and had they not rushed to judgment on Van de Velde a mere four days after the crime and well before they had gotten their full investigative team in place let alone had analyzed all the available evidence, it's quite possible they'd have solved it by now. - Jeff

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (930)	4/17/2001 11:21:20 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Re: 4/17/01 - WTNH: FOI Commission to review Jovin investigation file FOI Commission to review Jovin investigation file (Hartford-AP, Apr. 17, 2001 5:55 PM) _ The state Freedom of Information Commission is ordering New Haven police to hand over the files of the Suzanne Jovin murder case. The Yale student was stabbed to death in 1998 a few block away from the university in a residential section of New Haven. No one has been arrested in the case. The commission plans to review the files to see if any documents should be released to the public. The Hartford Courant and a friend of suspect James Van de Velde, filed complaints with the commission. They allege that New Haven Police Chief Melvin Wearing violated FOI laws by withholding documents about the investigation. The commission will review the files in private. The police have two weeks to turn over the documents. wtnh.com