Cop killing suspect enters innocent plea
The Lebanon man suspected of killing a state trooper in Norwich pleaded innocent to all charges pressed at a court hearing Thursday: grossly negligent operation of a vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident with death resulting, attempting to elude an officer and possession of marijuana and cocaine. Lacking the $300,000 in cash bail needed to be released from prison, Eric Daley, 23, has since been incarcerated at the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor, Vt., for his involvement in a fatal hit-and-run accident June 15, according to the Vermont State Police. Police believe Daley swerved his 1991 Nissan coupe into Vermont state trooper Michael Johnson in an attempt to avoid a set of tire spikes set up as a roadblock on a stretch of Interstate 91 two miles north of Hanover.
