Dwight Pettit, the attorney for Catrice Parker, who brought the charges in December, said he provided at least five names of witnesses who backed his client's contentions. But it appears Lewis, who is charged with murder in the Jan. 31 stabbing deaths of two men in Atlanta, won the witness war in that case. The Baltimore prosecutor in the case was out of his office Tuesday afternoon and not available for comment. It didn't surprise me what happened here.
People are reluctant to get involved in celebrity cases.
The move not to prosecute could help Lewis in the murder trial he faces May 15 in Fulton County. Some witnesses in the Atlanta case also have been reluctant to come forward on behalf of the prosecution. A videotape operator named Keith Ponder, a witness to the fight that led to the stabbings, never notified authorities of what he saw but called Lewis' defense lawyers and even testified for him at the bond hearing. Prosecutors also gave immunity to a woman passenger in the limousine with Lewis before she would talk to them. At least four other passengers in the vehicle are seeking immunity deals before they speak.