"One who engages in what amounts to a high speed game of chicken, with complete disregard for the value of the lives that are thereby endangered, is undoubtedly an individual whose culpability is the equivalent of an intentional murderer," Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman wrote.
November 22, 2013 at 12:00 AM
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ALBANY – Extreme intoxication does not excuse drivers from prosecution for depraved indifference murder, a divided state Court of Appeals concluded Thursday.
The court’s 5-2 majority upheld the murder convictions of two drunken drivers and one impaired driver for triggering catastrophic accidents. In two cases, defendants ignored repeated warnings from other drivers as they speeded in the wrong directions on parkways.
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