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Hillsborough briefsBy Times staff writer © St. Petersburg Times, published August 30, 2000 Wife dead, spouse hurt in motorcycle crashTAMPA -- A Valrico woman was killed and her husband seriously injured when the motorcycle they were riding hit a parked sheriff's deputy's car. Investigators said neither Crystal Francher, 27, nor Larry Francher, 31, was wearing a helmet when the accident happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. Deputies said sheriff's Lt. Bill Davis was on routine patrol in his unmarked 2000 Ford Taurus when he stopped in the eastbound, left lane of State Road 60 east of Dover Road to remove tire debris. Davis activated his car's emergency lights and was moving the debris to the side of the road when a semitrailer truck approached from the rear. As Davis waved the truck around with a flashlight, a motorcycle driven at a high speed by Larry Francher hit the rear of Davis' car, officials said. Crystal Francher was pronounced dead at the scene. Larry Francher was listed Tuesday in serious condition at Tampa General Hospital. Davis was not injured. Investigators said they believe the incident to be alcohol related, and that Larry Francher did not have a motorcycle endorsement on his driver's license. Request for attorneys' notes on Coe deniedTAMPA -- A judge has denied the Tampa Tribune's request to force the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office to hand over a copy of notes taken by two assistant prosecutors during media interviews with Harry Lee Coe days before he killed himself. Coe, the former state attorney, was interviewed in July by reporters from WFLA-TV and the Tribune about his loans from two employees and allegations that he was gambling online and at local dog tracks. A few days later, Coe shot himself in the head. Coe's employees Paul Johnson and Michael Hayes were present during the interviews and took notes. The Tribune argued that the notes were public records since they were taken as part of the office's official business. Circuit Judge James Arnold did agree that some phone slips of Coe's were public records, but decided that the state attorney's office had made a good-faith effort to get copies of the slips back from the Florida Deparment of Law Enforcement, which took them in the course of investigating Coe's death. He ruled that the state attorney's office could produce the phone slips after the FDLE completes the investigation.
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