Q: If you are set for a pretrial and all depositions have been taken, a proposal has been made to the states atty.
Why would the states atty not respond the the lawyers correspondence? He submitted all of the documentation from 5 depositions to her and a proposal to come to an agreement before the pretrial hearing on July 13th, and she has yet to respond to his emails? He told me she was allowed to ignore him which is ridiculous but what would be her reasoning for not looking at what was sent and respond to keep the case from going to trial? Especially when every person that gave the deposition said the defendant was innocent and was only working under the owner of the company who they all said is the guilty party? This is in a small very clickish town and it seems like all of the cases are being pushed off there. At this point they're scheduling all the way in January. Any advice to help me understand her lack of care for someone's life by not taking the time to look at the evidence and come to an agreement vs taking this to trial and wasting money would be appreciated.
A: What the defendant's attorney said is correct: the state attorney is not required to settle the case. Perhaps she doesn't believe the witnesses who were deposed. In any event, ask the defense attorney, he probably has a better idea than random attorneys on the Internet would.
Henry George Ferro agrees with this answer
A: If what you are saying is correct then your attorney might want to consider filing a sworn motion to dismiss.
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