Dear Editor:
I tried not to get into this, but I can’t just sit back and take
anymore poor Mr. Robert Orabuena.
Dear Editor:
I tried not to get into this, but I can’t just sit back and take anymore poor Mr. Robert Orabuena. First off, my brother’s name was never David Judnick – his name is Joseph. Your reporter Jed Logan can’t even get that right. He did the initial report July 6, and had the name right. Now he calls him David!
Poor Mr. Orabuena has suffered enough. What has our family been doing? My parents lost their son, just down the road from their home on McMahon Road.
My son not only lost his uncle, but he lost his $20,000 V-Rod Harley, which he only had for a year. My sister-in-law lost her husband; his daughter and son lost their father; I lost my brother, all because Mr. Orabuena couldn’t wait to make his left turn. Maybe my brother was going a little fast, but how many other people drive over the speed limit on Fairview Road?
All this political garbage between Attorney Arthur Cantu and the San Benito County District Attorney’s office has done nothing to help this case. We have suffered a great loss, and all we want is to see justice done.
We have seen Mr. Orabuena’s police record (given to us with his police report of the accident by the highway patrol) and we do not want to see him use poor judgment and cause the injury or death of another innocent victim. This trial, is just another way for the defense to blast the DA, and here we sit in the middle. How can a fair jury be selected when people are made to feel like this is a racial problem and a waste of taxpayer’s money? Why does the press have to always bring up negative, unhappy things?
What about the unfairness to our family and my brother’s wife, and children? We have also been through hell the last four months while the defense attacks the DA’s office and we sit here in the middle.
The bottom line here is that Mr. Orabuena did make a left turn to cause this accident. If he had used better judgment and waited until the on-coming vehicle had passed, he wouldn’t have been arrested for vehicular manslaughter, my brother would still be alive and we wouldn’t be going through all of this stuff.
Judy Rider, Hollister
Submitted Tuesday, Nov. 4
Dear Editor:
It was JOE Judnick who died in the July 4th motorcycle accident not David. I will never understand why The Dispatch doesn’t proofread. You have the name wrong in the latest article and, to top it off, in the “Our Voice” (Wed. Nov. 5th).
Joe Judnick’s family has been put through hell in the past four months as well. Hollister police must have had some good reason to arrest Robert Orabuena.
I will trust the courts to sort this out as I was not there to see myself.
Joe was a fine family man not some reckless motorcycle rider in town for the Fourth of July rally. He visited his sister and family on that day and took a short ride on a nephew’s bike. He never came home.
He leaves a wife, two children, his parents, sisters, brothers, nephews and nieces, and many friends, most are residents of Gilroy, Hollister and Salinas.
Yes, Robert has been separated from his family, but so has Joe – permanently.
Mona Berman, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, Nov. 6
to ed****@****ic.com
