How do I go about outing someone as a thief and lier?

Question

I live in a small town. Last year an out-of-town person stole two trucks one belonging to a family I know and one belong to someone else the second of which he took out on a backroad and wrecked. This guy had been fighting this case in court for over a year now and has rightfully so earned himself a bad name in town and continuously gets beat up in the bars. During this whole ordeal he has stuck to an outragous story that he was with two forigners and he did not know who they were or where they mysteriously dissappeared to after the wreck and all the while I haven't believed it. Last night I found out from someone in this guys hometown that he knows that there was two other people involved and that they are two people I know, however they threatened his life if he ever told on them. One of which works with me and he is very well liked both by our coworkers and others in town however knowing this and other things I have picked up on I can see that this guy is a dirtbag. I want everyone to see this person for who he really is and I want him to pay for the crime the he committed and intimidating someone else to take the fall for. What should I do?

Answer 1

If you're a witness in an ongoing case, you should not be discussing it in a open forum.  Not only is your testimony subject to possible dismissal if it were to become known, you may also be subject to Contempt of Court sanctions, as well.

But then I already have doubts about a witness who casually dismisses vigilante action such as beating up in bars as a routine legal course during an ongoing case.

Answer 2

I don't know that you can do anything.  This guy you're talking about sounds like one of those whatchamacallit......sharks.  If you're going to take him on you better be on your game, you'll have to be creative and cunning.  Fact is I can't really tell you how to bust someone like that from all the way over here if you take my meaning.  My advice would be to just let that guy take the fall and hope this other guy eventually gets what's coming to him.

Answer 3

Explain what you have just told us to an attorney or prosecutor "off the record' and find out what s/he recommends.  

If you don't feel comfortable doing that, you don't really have many other options. Getting involved based on hearsay is dangerous.  It doesn't sound as though you have many hard and true facts, only supposition.  

Answer 4

Talk to the prosecutor