{"id":259261819,"date":"2013-03-20T17:10:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=259261819"},"modified":"2013-03-20T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:10:19","slug":"prosecutors-face-test-proving-serious-crime-in-a-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=259261819","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Face Test Proving Serious Crime in a Fatal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: We&#8217;ve had cases in Maryland where speeding is just speeding, even at twice the speed limit and even if it results in a death.]<br \/>\n***********************************************************************<br \/>\nBy J. DAVID GOODMAN, New York Times<br \/>\nThe crash left a young couple and their baby dead. The driver of the speeding BMW who struck them was charged with criminally negligent homicide. But making those charges stick will be a nettlesome challenge for prosecutors.<br \/>\nIt has always been: persuading a jury that a driver\u2019s negligence rises to the level of a crime is notoriously tough. But recent court rulings, which said that drivers\u2019 actions failed to show moral blame, promise to muddy this already gray legal area further, and may work in the favor of the BMW\u2019s driver, Julio Acevedo.<br \/>\nMr. Acevedo was going twice the legal speed limit down a Brooklyn street when he crashed into a livery cab as it entered an intersection. Two passengers in the cab were killed; their son, delivered after the crash, died a day later. Mr. Acevedo was arrested several days later and charged by the Brooklyn district attorney\u2019s office with criminally negligent homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.<br \/>\nVehicular-crime cases in New York are usually based on a driver\u2019s committing at least two traffic infractions, which prosecutors informally call \u201cthe rule of two.\u201d Speeding alone is frequently insufficient to establish criminality.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/13\/nyregion\/serious-charges-in-fatal-crashes-pose-challenge-for-prosecutors.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/13\/nyregion\/serious-charges-in-fatal-crashes-pose-challenge-for-prosecutors.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: We&#8217;ve had cases in Maryland where speeding is just speeding, even at twice the speed limit and even if it results in a death.] *********************************************************************** By J. DAVID GOODMAN, New York Times The crash left a young couple and their baby dead. The driver of the speeding BMW who struck them was charged &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=259261819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prosecutors Face Test Proving Serious Crime in a Fatal Crash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259261819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259261819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259261819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259261819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259261819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259261819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259261819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}