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Woodmore families question out-of-town jury, number of charges, Durham contract

Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 12/15/16. Johnthony Walker, the driver involved in the November 21, 2016 school bus crash that sent 31 of the 37 students on board to the hospital resulting in six fatalities, appears before Judge Lila Statom in Hamilton County General Sessions Court on December 15, 2016 for charges of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Walker’s case was bound over to the grand jury after an hour and a half of testimony from two Chattanooga Police Department officers.
Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 12/15/16. Johnthony Walker, the driver involved in the November 21, 2016 school bus crash that sent 31 of the 37 students on board to the hospital resulting in six fatalities, appears before Judge Lila Statom in Hamilton County General Sessions Court on December 15, 2016 for charges of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Walker’s case was bound over to the grand jury after an hour and a half of testimony from two Chattanooga Police Department officers. Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 12/15/16. Johnthony Walker, the driver involved in the November 21, 2016 school bus crash that sent 31 of the 37 students on board to the hospital resulting in six fatalities, appears before Judge Lila Statom in Hamilton County General Sessions Court on December 15, 2016 for charges of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Walker’s case was bound over to the grand jury after an hour and a half of testimony from two Chattanooga Police Department officers.

By Zack Peterson 5 min read

Prosecutors agreed Monday to bring out-of-town jurors to Chattanooga to hear the case of Johnthony Walker, the 24-year-old bus driver charged with six counts of vehicular homicide in the Woodmore crash.

The only question now is, where will they come from?

“I would prefer a metropolitan area,” defense attorney Amanda Dunn said, adding there was significant coverage in Davidson County, Tenn., of the Nov. 21, 2016, wreck here. “We need a place with a diverse population similar to Hamilton County.”

She and Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston will discuss those details before Walker’s next appearance July 20.

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If you have a loved one injured in the Nov. 21 crash and want to report medical information to the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office, call 423-209-7400.