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DUI As Murder

By Lawrence Taylor

I’ve mentioned in past posts the growing trend among prosecutors around the country to elevate drunk driving fatality cases from the crime of manslaughter to the crime of murder, usually resulting in life imprisonment.  See for example, DUI Murder?, How to Convict a Drunk Driver of Murder and The Death Penalty for DUI?.  The most recent example concerns a DUI murder case this past week in Orange County, California, reported in an Associated Press news story entitled Murder Charges Increasing in Fatal DUI Cases.  In the trial, the defendant was only charged with murder, not with manslaughter.  After extensive deliberations, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. During the trial, I granted two interviews with the reporter...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).