Ansorge attorney wants to review videotape
BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer

RED BANK - A Red Bank publisher's drunken-driving case edged forward Nov. 29 as she and her lawyer appeared in municipal court for a pretrial conference.

"We're still waiting for the state to produce a videotape as well as some documents," said attorney Peter O' Mara Thursday.

O'Mara is representing Claudia Ansorge, editor and publisher of the Red Bank Tip Sheet!, published by Ansorge Unlimited.

O'Mara spoke with Judge William Himelman Nov. 29 about evidence in Ansorge's case that he has not yet been able to review.

This evidence includes a videotape of an interview with Ansorge as well as state documents related to her blood alcohol level the night of the incident.

Ansorge is being charged with driving while intoxicated relating to an April 19, 2006, car accident during which she struck a man with her vehicle while traveling westbound on East Front Street in Red Bank.

Although the accident took place on April 19, Ansorge was not arrested until April 21, when Robert Lisowsky, 59, of Brick, died at Jersey Shore Medical

Center, Neptune, where he had

been transferred to the

trauma unit.

In May, a Monmouth County grand jury declined

to indict Ansorge

on charges of hitting and

killing Lisowsky with her

vehicle as he was crossing

the street.

Lisowsky, who worked at Riverview Medical Center, was a 25-year employee of Meridian Health and was returning to work when he was struck by Ansorge's car.

Another pretrial conference is scheduled for Dec. 13, and at that time the parties involved will decide on a trial date for the case, according to Himelman.

"I'm anxious to get this case on the record and tried," said Himelman during the Nov. 29 court appearance.