Dwi murder cases: a legal wrong turn?
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A second North Carolina man is now serving a life sentence for a drunken-driving wreck, and some in the legal community warn the incipient trend marks a sharp departure from traditional assumptions about murder. Timothy Blackwell was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the first-degree murder of 4-year-old Megan Dail in a February 1997 accident. Last year, Thomas Richard Jones was convicted of murdering two Wake Forest University students whose car he hit after drinking and taking pain Source : nl.newsbank.com |