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Item: George Russell Weller -- the 87-year-old driver who killed 10 people at the Santa Monica Farmers Market last year -- has been charged with ten counts of vehivular manslaughter with gross negligence.
Sez the L.A. Times:
Police Chief James Butts urged Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley last month to file manslaughter charges, saying that Weller should have been aware of his own capacity to drive and was "at best" negligent in his operation of a motor vehicle.
Lynch said prosecutors took care when making the filing decision because there were "pretty horrific injuries and death out there with a nontypical killing weapon and a nontypical defendant." The charges come after a lengthy investigation by the California Highway Patrol and the Santa Monica Police Department.
Weller's attorneys, Mark Overland and Jim Bianco, said Monday that they were disappointed that Cooley decided to proceed with the case. They stressed that their own investigation concluded that the crash should not result in criminal charges.
Take a look at that last line again. The shocker: Their own investigation concluded that the crash should not result in criminal charges.
But of course. By the way, I'm sure Kobe Bryant's lawyers' investigation found that... ready for this? Kobe's innocent. Funny, but Michael Jackson's reps have likely come to the same conclusion about their client. And I'm sure Ahnuld's peeps would have decided the same thing had the Gropenator not called off his investigation.
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