Publication history
Case developments, published records and changes to these pages. The footer’s “Site updated” time refers to the latest entry here; record-review dates appear beside their sources.
Site updates
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Restored the homepage’s sheriff quote comparison, open letter, people strip, voting section and main October 27–29 hearing notice. Detailed call updates, telephone-records updates, meeting-date warnings and the expanded document comparison remain on their dedicated pages.
Site updates
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Simplified the homepage to the opening message, a short document-comparison introduction and two action links. Detailed call updates, correspondence, meeting notices, the open letter and people remain on their dedicated pages. Previously shared homepage update links open the corresponding records.
Site updates
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Added a prominent homepage comparison linking the original report, September 9 narrative and September 10 signed complaint. The case timeline now includes the October 13 telephone-records response and published correction, followed by the October 14 call and emailed questions. These entries organize already-published evidence; they do not establish a newer court outcome, later reply or resolution of the LECB meeting-date conflict.
Contact history
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The passenger called Sheriff James Maiorano III at approximately 4 p.m. Gallup time, reached voicemail and left a return-call request referring to emailed questions. No response was reported at the original update. The supplied outgoing call-log screenshot, recording a duration of 1 minute 12 seconds, now appears on the homepage and the Sheriff’s page alongside the recording. The passenger’s name, home state and private callback number remain replaced by bleeps; the unredacted URL remains blocked.
Site updates
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Corrected the nationwide reach banner to include Idaho: 45 of 50 states reached, with Montana, Wyoming, West Virginia, Vermont and Delaware remaining.
State oversight
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Published the supplied October 20 Zoom screen alongside the official October 15 special-meeting date. Separately documented the October 27–29 rulemaking hearing’s meeting-ID and passcode links pointing to the March meeting room. Homepage notices now distinguish the two events and their different problems. Includes captured destinations and the published direct hearing URL; rescheduling and future live access remain unconfirmed.
Records
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Added the September 3 request, September 4 acknowledgment, September 18 promised response date and October 13 response. The timeline is grouped with the telephone recordings and agency response, using readable white text and the site’s red accents. Counts are fixed as of October 13: 40 days since the request and 25 days beyond MCSO’s stated date.
People
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Restored the profile with the current Deputy Clerk listing, the $33,945.60 annual salary reported for Deputy Treasurer in 2025, and the Clerk’s Office responsibilities. Added two Facebook comments with the original publisher-supplied screenshots and matching transcriptions. Individual duties and the identity of the recorded delivery recipient remain unresolved.
Corrections
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Published the passenger’s accountability statement alongside the correction acknowledging one August 21 call: “I am not asking anyone to meet a standard I am unwilling to meet myself.” The statement links directly to the correction and the supplied recordings.
Records
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Added Maiorano’s phone number beneath his email with a tap-to-call link.
Records
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The passenger reports one call. The supplied bodycam and voicemail document that single event. Updated the comparison to explicitly question what supports “calls” in the plural in the Sheriff’s August 25 email. Redacted recordings and written source documents remain linked.
Corrections
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The supplied recordings document one August 21 call reaching voicemail. Updated the homepage, Records, the Sheriff’s profile and the open letter; published privacy-redacted playback.
Site
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Added the supplied Bitin' List track to the People page’s small play button. State Oversight now begins with the status overview and groups each agency’s records together.
Featured stories
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Added KATV’s article, source context, a timeline entry and questions seeking the referral record and review findings.
Site updates
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Removed the 60-second homepage overview and its jump link. The source documents, case timeline and press room remain available on their dedicated pages.
Records
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Added the October 1 production inventory, MCSO’s September 29 referral acknowledgment, NMDOJ’s October 6 response and October 9 processing notices. Refreshed official response-review dates and question notes through October 13, including the October 11–12 requests.
State oversight
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Added the official notice, Zoom details, comment routes and proposed-rule summary, with a homepage link. The October 26 receipt deadline applies to mailed statements.
Corrections
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Fixed an election-countdown replacement that changed the chief-statement timeline date to October 20. Story dates now remain unchanged when election dates update.
Site updates
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Updated the homepage title and search/social descriptions to identify the McKinley County accountability record. Evidence now links directly to the policy and command-review comparison.
Site updates
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Added a public crawler panel with 24-hour and seven-day aggregates, provider IP verification and logging coverage notes. Expanded links beside existing recordings, preserved private route exclusions, and tied sitemap dates to substantive page content. Recognized automation remains separate from visitor milestones. Update October 12: removed the public crawler panel from the homepage.
Featured stories
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Added a sharing preview with Craig’s existing photograph and the page URL, plus a five-event timeline linking the missing date, court orders, police encounter, chief’s response and October 10 screenshot publication to their sources.
Featured stories
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Added the supplied Tracey Price comment screenshot, attributed identification as Sgt. Eddie Price’s wife, source context and renewed demands for the reporting timeline, complete recordings and force-review findings.
Site updates
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Added a three-part homepage walkthrough and a press room with a one-page case brief, key dates, source documents, redacted hearing excerpts and media contact details.
Featured stories
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Added the family appeal graphic, vehicle-recovery details, family video and public contacts. Added our statement: We live in Arkansas, too.
Featured stories
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Added Nikki Pate’s missing-person appeal, public agency photograph, identifying details, dated sources and official contact numbers. Her page is linked from Featured Stories.
Site updates
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Matched red interface accents to Emergency Exit. Moved the complete Kiki story and help section before our case comparison, added a direct email navigation link and made the prepared email action a prominent button.
Featured stories
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Added an email-officials action to the section about our case on Kiki’s page, with a prepared letter demanding answers about the changed complaint and outstanding records.
Greyhound
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Replaced the outdated court-date panel with the October 2 failure to appear and no-bond bench warrant, and moved it below the RMS profile. The site reach bar now shows the live state total out of 50, with the current count in red.
Featured stories
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Expanded the connection to the Greyhound case with the bodycam account, the September 9–10 wording change, the sheriff’s and district attorney’s responses, and direct questions about preparation, review and correction. Linked the supporting records beside the claims.
Site updates
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Restored the previous Shubham-page layout and text. Sensitive personal identifiers and residential images remain withheld from public display.
Site updates
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Restored the homepage with Sheriff Maiorano’s photograph, streamlined Kiki’s accountability section and kept its links into our case. The Case now carries the chronology and court outcome; Evidence leads with the records and holds the hearing videos. Replaced the expired court notice, archived the October 4 recruitment flyer, removed the People-page note and clarified the site-wide update label.
Featured stories
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Added a prominent connection beside the officer-by-officer demand, linking to our case, the report-to-complaint comparison and the officials involved. Made the sharing anchor available in the page HTML and linked story submissions from Featured Stories.
Featured stories
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Strengthened the criticism of the reporting obstacles described by Craig’s father and called for named responsibility, supervisory scrutiny and consequences for substantiated failures. The father’s account, police-response links and source records remain available.
Featured stories
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Made the father’s struggle to get his missing child reported explicit and directed the accountability demands to Chief Tommy Stueart: answer the refusals and delays described in the father’s account, identify the responsible officials and provide the dated records.
Featured stories
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Added links to the October 6 police statement, the March 15 arrest-report entry and NCMEC’s explanation of federal missing-child reporting requirements. Expanded the questions for Mena Police to demand the reporting timestamps, action on the custody order, interagency assistance and use-of-force review records.
Featured stories
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Source-linked feature on the two separate Naples disappearances, the same deputy, reporting, conflicting source dates and questions for the investigative records.
Website improvements
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Added Featured Stories to the shared footer navigation, linking directly to Craig’s /kiki page.
Featured stories
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Added the project’s Arkansas connection to Craig’s introduction. The feature uses the Evidence page’s headings, section dividers and responsive document rows. Corrected the centered page margins, balanced the flyer with its source and download links, and consolidated the share action into the page navigation. Fixed dark question text on the dark background and added spacing between questions. It remains off the homepage.
Featured stories
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Added the original family-shared missing-child flyer and three complete PDFs from Polk County case 57DR-23-180: the November 20 order denying emergency relief, the March 11 default custody order and the March 11 body attachment. Official registry case details and source links accompany the records. Removed the featured-story card from the homepage.
Featured stories
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Craig’s dedicated /kiki page includes the family-shared missing-child flyer, the Arkansas missing-person listing, three filed court orders, his father’s public account and the police-encounter video source. The feature has been removed from the homepage.
Website improvements
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The homepage leads with the failure to appear and no-bond bench warrant, linking directly to the ruling and docket. The voting plan follows, with automatic October 6 wording. A concise report-to-complaint comparison replaces the large slogan, sheriff portrait and general accountability panel. The open letter and people directory follow the core evidence.
Website improvements
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Removed the Gallup Police recruitment section from the homepage.
Website improvements
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The October 4 Gallup Police recruitment drive is labeled as a past event. The homepage dates Bernitz’s September statements rather than presenting the October 2 reply delay as upcoming. Voting headlines automatically switch to early voting being underway on October 6 in Gallup time. The October 3 docket PDF now has a searchable document entry in Evidence.
Court
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The public copy of the October 3 court docket can now be opened directly from The Case and Evidence. The existing explanations distinguish the register entries from the underlying warrant and the hearing recording.
Court
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The 8:40 AM MT recording now retains the full 2 minutes 35 seconds, restoring approximately 49 seconds omitted from the earlier redacted export, including the bench-warrant ruling, no-bond status and closing exchange. Privacy masks remain in place.
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Case Lookup checked October 3 lists October 2 entries for the failure-to-appear warrant, bench-warrant letter and Temporary Stand-In Attorney, followed by Natalya Shepherd. The update distinguishes the docket entries from the hearing recording and notes that the underlying warrant and represented party are not displayed.
In Memoriam
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A sourced remembrance of Michael Eugene Harvey includes his obituary portrait, military and law-enforcement service, and the obituary’s identification of Miguel Bittony as an honorary pallbearer.
Public background
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His profile heading now includes the family nickname “Jimmy,” with a newsletter source. Maiorano’s additional-information section now links his parents’ public website, explains the three-generation name, and adds sourced details about his upbringing and Angel’s role as campaign manager. A family-attributed timeline follows the 2021 campaign announcement, 2022 election account, 2024 community-outreach account and 2025–2026 reelection references, with direct source links.
Published commentary
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Maiorano’s profile adds commentary comparing the childhood inspiration and community-safety standard described in GMCS Elevate, Spring 2025, pages 12–13, with his documented August 21 response and August 25 staff instruction. The section asks whether his treatment of the victim sets the example children should expect from law enforcement and links the magazine and correspondence.
Court developments
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The Bittony, Benally and Maiorano profiles now confront the October 2 failure to appear and no-bond bench warrant. The additions connect the report’s recorded single name and Georgia address with unresolved identity and contact verification, supervisory approval and the Sheriff’s later defense. Each asks who will locate Shubham, what the pickup limits are and whether his return from outside New Mexico will be pursued, with links to the report, correspondence and hearing.
Court developments
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The homepage banner highlights Shubham’s failure to appear, the bench warrant and no-bond status, with a link to the hearing. Three privacy-redacted court excerpts play on the Case and Evidence pages, where the details explain that John William Bernitz was not present, Erika Pirotte appeared for the State, and what Judge Tina Garcia meant by “very strange.”
Court developments
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October 2, 2026: Shubham failed to appear when his case was called at 8:40 a.m. Mountain Time. The judge granted a bench warrant for his arrest, with NO BOND. Update reported by the victim attending the court proceeding.
Site improvements
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The two announcement banners above the court notice have been removed from the homepage.
Complaint history and IPRA
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As of October 1, MCSO has not supplied the requested drafting and revision records explaining the omitted continued-touching passage in the complaint signed by Miguel Bittony. Its September 17 IPRA #10 response supplied the DA email and final complaint and declared the request closed. Bernitz maintained that the discrepancy was not material. The October 1 supplement continues the demand for native files, drafts, revisions, instructions and approval records.
Records correspondence
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The seven official profiles now show the latest direct email located in correspondence reviewed through October 1, with source links and explicit no-email-found statuses for Bittony and Benally. Internal messages and recording-access logs are distinguished from replies to the passenger. Yazzie’s profile adds selected text from her October 1 NMDOJ-records and prior-search-records closure replies. Directory summaries now foreground documented conduct and unresolved accountability questions.
Published evidence
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Bernitz’s profile now follows the September 1–24 prosecution correspondence. Jim’s profile connects recording access, the August 25 routing directive and dated records responses, with the September 11 request count explicitly historical. Elliott’s profile separates her August correspondence, logged viewing and exports, and the agency’s later production. Bittony’s profile compares the original report, September 9 narrative and September 10 signed complaint. Yazzie’s directory entry describes records correspondence and recording access; Benally’s opening foregrounds the unresolved scope of supervisory review. Each addition links to the existing public source record. The eight directory cards each include a brief description of the person’s documented connection to the case.
Site improvements
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The homepage complaint and recruitment updates now use left-aligned text, smaller headings and a single red accent. The complaint update gives the source comparison a clear button and groups its supporting links. Duplicate horizontal dividers and excess spacing have been removed.
Case and records
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The case timeline now includes NMDOJ’s follow-up, the September 28 MCSO processing replies, September 29 NMDOJ and governor responses, and the October 1 complaint-history supplement. People now includes John William Bernitz and updated records roles for Eric Jim and Harolynn Yazzie. A ten-matter records comparison separates requested material, supplied records, agency positions and unresolved scope.
Records and accountability
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The review adds NMDOJ’s September 14 and 23 letters, September 28 MCSO processing replies, the governor’s September 29 replies and the October 1 complaint-history supplement. Question 36 is now partly answered; the referral decision-maker, delivery and substantive review remain unresolved. Nine specific facts are documented across 53 tracked questions.
Published evidence
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The public color complaint permanently redacts the passenger’s name and spelling variants and the driver’s full name and employee number. Shubham’s information, the filing stamp, signature and oath are preserved as filed. The summons remains on page 1 and the color complaint on pages 2–3. Earlier incorrect copies have been withdrawn.
Court case
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The homepage highlights Shubham’s first court appearance, scheduled for October 2, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Mountain / 9:30 a.m. Central. It shows Tomorrow or Today in Mountain Time and a live countdown to the scheduled time, then awaits a confirmed court update. The summons directs him to plead to the charge; the notice links to the case status and published complaint and summons.
District Attorney correspondence
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The female passenger confirmed on October 1 that the DA mailing shown in the September 28 USPS Informed Delivery preview contained the sworn criminal complaint. The case timeline and Evidence entry now link directly to the published September 10 complaint and summons, alongside the redacted envelope preview.
Voting information
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The homepage and Take Action page now connect the sheriff’s elected role with the opportunity to act at the ballot box. The original gold vote-by-mail banner is preserved. The voting guide includes the McKinley County Clerk’s Office address, weekday hours, October 12 closure, final Saturday hours, and the official county list of alternate locations. Early voting runs October 6–31; expanded early voting begins October 17.
Gallup Police recruitment
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Gallup Police announces a one-day recruiting drive on Sunday, October 4, 2026, starting at 2 p.m. MDT at 451 Boardman Drive. The announcement lists onsite applications, testing, interviews, $24/hour for non-certified recruits, and $32/hour upon certification. Certified laterals start at $32/hour, with possible increases for experience. The original flyer, benefits, recruiting contact and application links are available on the Gallup page.
District Attorney correspondence
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Dated email excerpts document Bernitz’s explanation that testimony and video could address the account at trial, his view that the continued-touching discrepancy is not material, and his September 24 decision to defer further replies until after October 2. The case timeline and question 50 now reflect those responses. His September 22 acknowledgment of the victim impact statement is also published.
State oversight
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The published referral and three replies show LECB’s response to the September 20 Bittony submission. LECB acknowledges receipt and review and the separate Director-report authority, while directing the underlying concerns to MCSO. The replies provide no certification case number, separate Director report or investigative findings. The separate Maiorano complaint and NMSP forwarding retain their own statuses.
Published evidence
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The public evidence collection includes the redacted September 16 formal P-008 complaint and original email printouts published September 22. Eric Jim’s July 30 acknowledgment replaces the earlier reformatted packet exhibit. Officer Jacob Keah-Tigh’s handwritten notes are correctly identified and linked to their Gallup Police production record.
Report and complaint comparison
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The September 18 comparison identifies the continued-contact and immediate-confrontation passage present in the original MCSO report but absent from the signed September 10 complaint. It places the original and complaint paragraphs vertically, quotes the oath above Bittony’s signature, and links the recorded four-contact account at 02:14. The open letter asks who changed and reviewed the narrative and how the omission will be addressed.
MCSO records
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The September 17 review tracks requests #1–6 and the July 30, August 14, and August 15 requests, identifying what arrived and what remains disputed. Overlapping missing records are counted once; elapsed original response periods are distinguished from proven deadline violations.
MCSO records
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MCSO closes requests #4, #5, and #6. The responses include policy attachments and four recording audit logs. Read the responses and follow the links to the produced records.
MCSO records
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The September 15 policy and audit productions are now linked beside the witness, report, language-access and supervisory-review questions. Includes the named recording-access entries and the question of which policy version governed July 16.
State oversight
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NMDOJ’s Intake & Constituent Services said it referred the complaint to MCSO and closed the matter in its own office. The published thread includes the female passenger’s follow-ups about the decision-maker, records sent, substantive review, and reconsideration.
Court case
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Read the female passenger’s statement and email to District Attorney John Bernitz requesting preservation, personal participation on the record at sentencing, and notice before any negotiated disposition. Public copies omit private identifiers.
Greyhound
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The published correspondence records the female passenger's request for a named person responsible for GH034799, confirmation of evidence preservation, and answers about any subsequent transportation. It includes her escalation to Flix leadership.
Court case
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The public case-status page links to the criminal complaint and summons in McKinley County Magistrate Court case M-35-MR-2026-00188. The filing alleges battery. A charge is not a conviction; the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.
Greyhound
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Read the published excerpt of Raelonda Robinson-Howard's reply saying the correspondence was being escalated to Customer Service management, alongside the passenger's later follow-ups.