Mall loses bid to block release of shooting videos
Source: Associated Press
Mall loses bid to block release of shooting videos
| November 10, 2014 | Updated: November 10, 2014 3:25pm
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An upscale New Jersey mall can't stop the release of surveillance videos related to the fatal carjacking of a young lawyer there last December.
Michigan-based Taubman Centers, which owns The Mall at Short Hills, had sought a "protective order" for the footage and certain documents in a lawsuit filed against them by the lawyer's widow, NJ.com (http://bit.ly/1ElQ8lB ) reported.
Taubman Centers said prospective criminals could use the footage to determine the location of surveillance cameras, but state Superior Court Judge James Rothschild Jr. declined to grant the order late last week, saying it was a "fairly unlikely scenario."
Taubman Centers and Universal Protection Service, whose officers patrol the mall, had also sought to restrict public access to security and emergency preparedness documents. They argued that such information could fall into the hands of criminals and jeopardize security.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Mall-loses-bid-to-block-release-of-shooting-videos-5883526.php
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Maybe you should do that anyway. Besides, won't the footage be shown at the trial?
Authorities have said (Dustin) Friedland, a 30-year-old from Hoboken, was killed while returning to his car in the mall parking garage with his wife, Jamie Schare Friedland. They were confronted by carjackers and Friedland was shot in the head, but his wife was unharmed.
Jamie Schare Friedland filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this year, seeking unspecified damages. She accused the mall owners of reducing security to increase profits and first responders of mishandling a call for help, allegations those parties deny.
As for "fairly unlikely scenarios," how about driving ten miles with three accomplices to the upper levels of a parking deck in a high-end mall during the Christmas shopping season just to steal a car? I won't be the least bit surprised if there turns out to be some kind of connection between one of the Friedlands and the carjackers.
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