Down the road in one of the inevitable lawsuits, someone is going to want to know why ACCPD didn't make him blow when he finally showed up. Pretty SOP because DUIs and underage drinking are big money makers here.
Do you think a creative prosecutor could argue factual causation to charge Jalen with contributing to the accident?
Checking in. Done plenty of dumb stuff, but not that.
Yeah....did some pretty damned stupid stuff before and after college.....
I was a very good/fast driver back in the day but was equally foolishly blind to my mortality. I will swear to it that angels held my car on the road on a very curvy section in a heavily wooded area. I had two other young souls in the car with me and was doing nearly 80 in a 35-45 stretch. I remember feeling the passenger side wheels creeping off the edge of the road and realizing I had nothing left to offer. Could neither brake nor push to accelerate through the turn. Its an old narrow road that had a concrete outer edge paved as an add on cause it was just so old and narrow. I have no other explanation for what kept us on that road. Glad I didn't kill anyone and grateful for the angel's grace.
Yep. A much much younger version raced and drove when I shouldn't have plenty of times. Never together. Kind of irrelevant to the case though. He got preferential treatment previously (as the cop admitted) and it ultimately led to death. Just sad.
So it's not much of a stretch to charge Jalen with "reckless driving" because regardless of whether there was an accident or not, driving a Jeep in excess of 100 MPH in a 45 MPH zone is "reckless disregard for the safety of persons." The law doesn't limit the charge to persons in the vehicle, or even persons in the accident - it's any "persons". Frankly I don't understand how he didn't pick up a reckless driving charge, again, being familiar with the practices and customs of ACCPD.
