Letter: Thoughts on court report

Dear Editor,

I just finished reading the court report for Andrew Cooper and agree they need a new trial, and I want to be on the jury, just to make sure he is found guilty of vehicular homicide and sentenced to 30 years and no chance of parole and four charges if DWI. I feel the prosecution dropped the ball on this because he was guilty of falsifying the test. Cooper was a cop, not a good one, but he knew how to cheat the test.

The other thing that caught my eye was Cooper was injured. Abigail Cohen died. If Cooper had died in the accident he caused, nobody would care because he caused it. Cooper’s $50 lawyer, Noble, tried to say it was not his fault because he had already passed the stop sign. Listen, dummy, they don’t put the stop sign in the middle of the intersection. It is placed 4-8 feet before the intersection so most people with a brain know to stop.

Noble had another idea that Christopher was guilty because he may have been doing 1-2 mph at the time of the impact, and he defended Cooper because he was only going 90 mph and the gas pedal was mashed to the floor at the time of the impact. Noble also stated that cooper was accelerated to 90 mph to avoid a collision as he was taught in Highway Patrol driving school. He was dragging the Missouri Highway Patrol through the mud because that was a bald-face lie. He learned how to lie and cover your tracks. So bring on a new trial.

Let’s give Cooper the jail time he deserves and keep him out of patrol cars the rest of his life.

John Johnson

Sikeston, Missouri

Editor's note: The John Johnson of Sikeston who wrote the Letter to the Editor in the Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, edition is not John A. Johnson, Realtor, of Sikeston.