Motion Filed to Suppress Evidence in Illegal Gambling Case
A new motion has been filed in an attempt to suppress evidence in a sports betting case that involves Jack Parker. He is the father of Brett Parker, a South Carolina bookmaker who is currently serving a life sentence for murdering his wife and an employee.
The evidence in question is a copy of an 8-page budget that could implicate, not only Jack Parker, but his deceased daughter-in-law.
From WISTV in Columbia:
Jack's attorney claims the law has several requirements for a person to face federal gambling charges. Among those, there has to be at least five people involved in the operation, and it has to gross $2,000 on any single day.
Lawyers are trying to prevent the budget from getting into the courtroom to prevent the possibility of prosecutors using the budget to meet those requirements.
If permitted, the budgets could implicate Tammy Parker along with four others, and this would meet the set requirements.
Attorneys claim these documents are just hearsay, and should be inadmissible in court.
"It is unlikely the attached notes are enough to call Tammy Parker a person who 'conducted, financed, managed, supervised, directed, or owned' the gambling business. She was simply adding a line on an informal budget for money that may or may not have materialized from Brett Parker's booking business," said the motion.
The Brett Parker case was recently profiled on “Dateline NBC”.
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
