Tracy Morgan Emmy Appearance Slammed by Walmart Truck Driver’s Attorney

Kevin Roper’s lawyer argues his client’s “guilt or innocence” in fatal wreck has been decided at “an awards show”

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While Tracy Morgan was enjoying a standing ovation from Hollywood’s biggest TV stars at the Emmys on Sunday, the lawyer representing the Walmart truck driver who plowed into a car transporting the former “Saturday Night Live” star over a year ago was crafting a statement advocating for his client’s “constitutional rights.”

“This is exactly what happens when a prosecutor and a judge allow the victims to dictate what’s important and control the proceedings,” Kevin Roper’s attorney, David Jay Glassman, Esq., said in a statement obtained by TheWrap. “Clearly the last thing on the mind of the Middlesex County prosecutor and the New Jersey Federal District Court Judge that permitted Morgan’s civil case to proceed was Mr.

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