Judge Grants Continuance in Former Prosecutor’s Hit-And-Run Case

HAVERTOWN–Magisterial District Judge Michael Cullen granted the deputy attorney general’s request for a continuance in the case against a former prosecutor with the Delaware County District Attorney's Office who is charged with .

On Tuesday morning at the district court on 7236 West Chester Pike, Upper Darby, in what was supposed to be Michael Donohue’s preliminary hearing, Deputy Attorney General John Flannery requested a brief continuance for the following reasons:

• Deputy Attorney General Joe McGettigan, assigned to the case, is in Bellefonte, Pa., Tuesday for Jerry Sandusky’s preliminary hearing.

• A need to further investigate the case.

• Filed a motion with President Judge Joseph Cronin to have an out of county judge preside over the preliminary hearing and possible trial.

Donohue’s lawyer, William Davis, told Cullen that while his client was ready to proceed with the case, he did not oppose Flannery’s request.

Flannery was happy with the judge’s ruling.

“Yeah, sure, it’s not a problem. Ultimately (Cullen) is deferring to the president judge to rule on the matter,” Flannery told the Haverford-Havertown Patch.

Donohue, a Havertown resident, told Patch he had no comment.

The 31-year-old Donohue has been charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, leaving the scene of an accident and other related charges for his alleged involvement of a that left a Havertown teenager in critical condition.