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Prosecutors: Pueblo leader moved body

Updated: Thursday, 22 Oct 2009, 12:40 PM MDT
Published : Thursday, 22 Oct 2009, 11:54 AM MDT

    SANTA FE (AP) - Federal prosecutors believe Pojoaque Pueblo Lt. Gov. Linda Diaz stopped her car after she struck and killed a pedestrian to move the body.

    A motion filed in federal District Court in Albuquerque says that conclusion is the "only reasonable inference" from the facts of the case, including blood evidence found at the scene of the crash.

    The motion says after killing 31-year-old Phillip Espinosa of Chimayo in April, Diaz "got out of the car, rolled him over and discovered him to be dead. ... She then fled the scene."

    Diaz is expected to claim at trial that she believed she hit an animal or someone threw a rock at her car.

    She has pleaded not guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident and failing to render aid.

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    Information from: The Santa Fe New Mexican

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