An attorney for a Texas man charged in the June 4 traffic death of jazz icon Ben Tucker today asked a judge to reconsider bond in the case.
Robert William Martin, 52, remains in the Chatham County jail without bond pending a June 20 preliminary hearing on vehicular homicide and related charges in the death of Tucker, 82, was killed while riding a golf cart on Hutchinson Island by a speeding car driven by Martin.
Defense attorney Alex Zipperer today asked Chatham County Recorder’s Court Chief Judge Tammy Stokes to set a bond for Martin.
The motion said Martin, who owns a home in Spicewood, Texas, is sole support for his wife and four children and has never been charged with anything “other than possibly a single speeding citation in the distant past.”
“There is no evidence of alcohol being involved in this case,” Zipperer said in the petition, adding that he has been advised that the district attorney has no objection to bond being set in the case.