11-22-2015, 11:19 AM
(10-31-2015, 11:13 AM)ramseycat Wrote: If you're trying to kill yourself in your car you hit a tree. Drive off a bridge. You don't drive into a crowd of people.
Exactly.
Mentally ill or not, it will be very hard for a defense attorney to convince a jury that Acacia Chambers could not foresee that her choice would endanger the lives of others.
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Acacia Chambers' attorney, ^ Tony Coleman, is trying however. He said his client had a history of mental illness symptoms which included not sleeping for several nights at a time.
She left work crying just before the accident and told police that she was suicidal when they arrested her after the accident. If it goes to trial, she and Coleman will have to convince a jury that she wasn't intentionally or negligently homicidal as well (I think she'll probably take a plea deal rather than go to trial).
According to the Daily Mail, the toxicology tests have been completed and show that her blood alcohol level was only .01.
Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z3sEWNYfKG