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Judge allows access to Dupon medical records
Court also allows district attorney access to medical records of passengers on the night of the crash that killed Emma Hall.
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Edgartown District Court Judge Benjamin Barnes will allow the commonwealth to access the medical records of Zachary Dupon on the night of a crash that resulted in the death of 22-year-old Oak Bluffs resident Emma Hall.
Barnes also allowed a separate motion for access to a set of five medical and EMT records of two passengers who were injured in Hall’s vehicle.
Barnes originally took the issue under advisement, but made the ruling on Monday.
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Updated Sun., Feb. 21, 10:15 am
Drug charges against Zachary Dupon were dismissed in Edgartown District Court Friday. The drug charges were unrelated to the collision in Tisbury that led to a motor vehicle homicide by reckless operation charge against Dupon for the death of Emma Hall. The drug charges, two counts of possession of a Class C drug (Xanax and clonazepam), were filed by Oak Bluffs Police in October. Dupon’s attorney, Rachel Self, achieved the dismissal through a successful motion to suppress evidence.
The case stemmed from a stop and search in the center of Oak Bluffs. Oak Bluffs Police officers received a report that Dupon and a man named Robert McLaughlin tried to sell two pedestrians marijuana near Giordano’s restaurant. Oak Bluffs Police, upon encountering Dupon and McLaughlin, deemed them “highly intoxicated,” according to a police report. Dupon was searched at the scene, and pills in “a tinfoil package” and
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Zachary Dupon has changed lawyers. screenshot
For reasons that weren’t described in court, Zachary Dupon has switched to a new attorney. Dupon, the 25-year-old Oak Bluffs man charged with motor vehicle homicide by reckless operation in the head-on collision death of Emma Hall, was initially represented by Vineyard Haven attorney Casey Dobel.
On Thursday, Jan. 14, Dupon’s new attorney, Rachel Self, came before Edgartown District Court Judge Benjamin Barnes remotely on behalf of her client. Dupon was also present via a link to the Dukes County Jail.
Self, an Edgartown immigration and trial lawyer, was featured in The Times in June regarding medical passage woes she and her partner had with the Steamship Authority. Last Thursday, Judge Barnes entertained a brief discussion of motions Self filed, and set the next date court for Jan. 25. Self requested Dupon be present in the courtroom.
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