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Bail Revoked For Accused Driver In Hit-And-Run
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The decision to let a repeat drunk driver out on bail outraged Baltimore and may have led to the death of a Johns Hopkins student. Now that controversial bail has been revoked.
Adam May was the only TV reporter in court, covering this case that is plagued with legal challenges.
Prosecutors are still trying to beef up their case against Thomas Meighan, the owner of a white pickup truck charged with a series of traffic violations the day Miriam Frankl was run over near campus. At the time, court records show he was out on $100,000 bail for another DUI, but now that bail has been revoked.
"We did it to keep the people of Baltimore safe," said Assistant State's Attorney Tyler Mann.
The prosecutor in that DUI case spoke only to WJZ.
"His car hit a car occupied by five people. Some of them were badly injured and sent to Shock Trauma," Mann said. "The evidence of that case suggests he was the driver of a car. We do have an eyewitness to him leaving the scene."
That's more than investigators have in the Hopkins hit-and-run. Meighan hasn't even been charged with manslaughter because sources tell WJZ they don't have an actual eyewitness or video placing him behind the wheel at the exact moment of impact.
"I think he stopped at the first light and blasted through all three red lights," said witness Nick Walters.
That witness who called 911 two hours before the hit-and-run tried to get a good look at Meighan and followed him for 20 minutes.
"All of a sudden, he jerked it over near Patterson Park, got out and started urinating on the sidewalk. I went up the road, did a U-turn and came back and got behind, but I couldn't see his face because he slumped over doing that," Walters said.
Meighan shouldn't have been on the road because his license was revoked one month earlier.
Meighan goes on trial Dec. 11 and faces up to four years in prison for the July DUI. In the Hopkins case, prosecutors are still waiting on the accident reconstruction, hoping it will help their case.
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