Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz is getting fed up with the Manhattan DA's office. He understands that charges will likely not be placed against the U.S. Postal Service driver who hit and killed his sister-in-law, lawyer and a retired court-appointed referee Marilyn Dershowitz, and that is okay. But he also knows there is a video in existence that may help his family discover who was driving the other vehicle involved in the accident—and he says the DA's office is stopping him at every pass.
Alan Dershowitz Wants Video Of His Sister-In-Law's Cycling Death, Please
Protesting the City's Supposed Bike Lanes
If you thought noticed a group of bicyclists playing dead on 6th Avenue near 33rd Street, your eyes weren't fooling you. Time's Up led a Bike Lane Action to "dramatize the fatal last moments of David Smith’s ride up 6th Avenue." Smith was killed when a passenger in a truck, parked in the bike lane, opened a door; Smith was knocked off his bike and into the path of a truck.
Open Car Door Kills Midtown Bicyclist
A 65-year-old man was killed during his bicycle ride to work when he was struck by an open car door in the bike lane at 6th Avenue and 36th Street. David Smith was then pushed off his bike and into the path of a box truck, which hit him.
Drunk Driver's Guilty Plea in Cyclist's Bike Path Death
On December 1, 2006 around 9:30PM, 22-year-old Eric Ng was biking north on bike path by the West Side Highway. Around the same time, 27-year-old Eugene Cidron, leaving a party at Chelsea Piers in his BMW, mistook the bike path for the actual highway, drove south on the bike path and fatally struck Ng near West Street - at least a mile from Chelsea Piers. Ng was hit so hard that his bicycle and shoe...

