A Manhattan jury this morning acquitted the postal worker who fatally drove over the bicycling sister-in-law of OJ Simpson Dream Team lawyer Alan Dershowitz
Ian Clement, a 64-year-old father of two, was cleared on a single count of leaving the scene of a deadly accident, following the fatal crash that killed Marilyn Dershowitz, 68, in Chelsea last summer.
“My sympathies lie with the Dershowitz family,” the free man Clement said on his way out of court.
The victim’s famed brother-in-law Alan was not in court when the verdict came down.
“I’m a strong believer in the jury system,” the victim's husband Nathan Dershowitz said. “The jury gets its information and it makes its vote.”
He cryptically added: “I’m sorry I wasn’t part of the prosecution team.”
Asked if that meant he was unhappy with the work of Manhattan prosecutors on this case, the grieving husband said: “You can understand what I’m saying.”
Both sides agree that Marilyn Dershowitz had been bicycling on West 29th Street a minute behind Nathan -- a behind-the-scenes Dream Team member -- and fell while negotiating a narrow space between Clement's seven-ton truck and a parked postal trailer.
Clement told jurors last week that he felt a "bump" as he unwittingly rode over the woman and her bike with his rear right tire, and immediately pulled to the side, as supported by surveillance video.
He saw traffic stopped through his rear-view mirror, and heard horns honking behind him, he had testified.
But after more than two minutes of waiting inside his cab, no one approached his vehicle, and he drove off believing he was uninvolved.
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