Attorneys are expected to file their closing arguments Tuesday in the no-contact order hearing involving NASCAR’s Kurt Busch. The written summations mark the closing stages of an atypical hearing that heard testimony from Busch’s ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, who alleged the driver smashed her head against the wall three times during a September race weekend in Dover, and from Busch, who claimed Driscoll was a trained assassin who could take him down at any moment. Dover Police Department closed their investigation into the incident last December and turned it over to the state Attorney General’s office. The office has not yet announced a decision on the allegations.(Delaware News-Journal)(2-3-2015)
UPDATE: Jon Offredo of the Delaware News-Journal tweeted, “Courts closed for the day. Unclear what was filed in the Busch/Driscoll hearing, as the documents are unavailable to press today.”(2-4-2015)
UPDATE 2: Kurt Busch’s ex-girlfriend repeatedly lied on the stand – making up stories about how he allegedly abused her – so she could destroy the NASCAR driver’s reputation, his attorneys argued in their closing statements. “We respectfully request that the Court not reward her perjury and scorched-earth approach of destruction by granting her a protective order,” his attorney Rusty Hardin wrote in his closing arguments. “There is only one person in this duo that needs protection, and it is not Patricia Driscoll – it is Kurt Busch.” The written summations, filed by attorneys on Tuesday and Wednesday, mark the closing stages of an atypical no-contact order hearing between the driver and Driscoll, who owns her own defense company and runs the Armed Forces Foundation. [Busch’s attornies] claimed in their closing arguments that Driscoll, told “legions of people” that she was a trained killer. And she never rebutted the driver’s claims about her covert life because she knew people would come forward, according to closing arguments filed in Kent County Family Court. “She easily could have retaken the stand in rebuttal and denied Mr. Busch’s testimony that she told him that she had killed people on behalf of the government,” a passage from Rusty Hardin’s closing arguments said. “She chose not to testify under oath that Kurt’s testimony was false because she knew there were legions of people to whom she had repeated the same thing – some of whom believed her and some who did not.” Kent County Family Court Commissioner David Jones is expected to make a ruling on the matter in the coming days.(Delaware News Journal)(2-4-2015)
