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WILKES-BARRE – A woman charged in a deadly 2008 hit-and-run crash has filed court papers in which she states she believes she is being charged wrongfully and that prosecutors have no evidence to bring against her.
Linda Giordano, through her attorney, Jonathan Blum, filed a motion for a writ of habeas corpus stating prosecutors couldn’t directly link her to the death of Sharon Shaughnessy last August, and that charges against her should be dropped.
Giordano and Megan Panowicz are charged in a pedestrian accident on Wyoming Avenue last August in which Shaughnessy, of Kingston, was killed as she tried to cross the avenue. The women are charged with accidents involving death.
At a preliminary hearing, Giordano testified she never saw an object on the street and was unaware that it was a person. There was no damage done to Giordano’s vehicle, court papers say, and the county coroner and a police officer testified they didn’t know which impact killed the victim, as three cars had struck her.
Giordano claims prosecutors didn’t present enough evidence for her to be charged, and that testimony from the preliminary hearing proves that.
A hearing was scheduled for Sept. 28 for attorneys to argue the matter.