A guilty verdict in the last Orange County, California, brought to 11 the number of times in two years that the defendant in that county was convicted of murder for killing someone while drunk driving. Total organized crime makes the leader of the national trend of drunk driving prosecution for murder.
States of New York to Alaska being installed in the harshest sentence as a most appropriate punishment for crime, in which a verdict of murder can carry a sentence of several years in prison for murder can you.
State laws vary, but Laura Dean-Mooney, national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, sees a definite trend among prosecutors to choose a charge of murder if the driver has more than one previous DUI and / or kill more than a person while driving drunk.
In California, a 1981 state Supreme Court ruling opened the way for drunk driving fatalities are charged with second-degree murder, DUI decision meets the standard required by the murder of malice, because it shows a conscious disregard for human life.
In 2008, Orange County created the first unit dedicated to the pursuit of the vehicle homicides, 99 percent of which are related to DUI. Of their total sentence of 11 to date, at least two had no prior DUI conviction and at least eight are expected to reach the state appeals court
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