DRIVER FACES SECOND COUNT NEW MURDER CHARGE FILED IN ROAD RAMPAGE.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Prosecutors filed a second murder charge Monday against a suspected drunk driver who fled from a fatal crash in a stolen motor home and collided with another vehicle, fatally injuring a teenager who died three days later. Christopher Anthony Hall Anthony Hall may be various people:
``The law implies malice based on certain types of conduct. By malice we mean malice aforethought A predetermination to commit an act without legal justification or excuse. A malicious design to injure. An intent, at the time of a killing, willfully to take the life of a human being, or an intent willfully to act in callous and wanton disregard of the consequences to as is required for a charge of murder. The person did an act intentionally that was dangerous to life and did that act with reckless disregard reckless disregard n. grossly negligent without concern for danger to others. Actually reckless disregard is redundant since reckless means there is a disregard for safety. (See: reckless) for life and in so doing somebody died,'' Deputy District Attorney Robert Foltz said. ``Driving a motor home down the road recklessly is certainly dangerous to human life. This guy clearly knew it, and he, as a result of that reckless driving reckless driving n. operation of an automobile in a dangerous manner under the circumstances, including speeding (or going too fast for the conditions, even though within the posted speed limit), driving after drinking (but not drunk), having too many passengers in , ended up killing two people in two separate collisions. That puts them both in the realm of a murder charge,'' Foltz said. Hall also faces charges of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. , assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. , and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, causing injury. Hall, who was already on probation for battery on a peace officer after an arrest last month by Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, deputies, was being held without bail. The 28-foot-long motor home had been stolen June 18 from a Pearblossom gasoline station, probably within one to three hours of the first fatal crash. The motor home hit Arevalo's car after 4 p.m. June 18 on 47th Street East, south of Avenue R-8. Arevalo's car went out of control and crashed into a utility pole. The motor home kept going, allegedly causing two other minor collisions before deputies spotted it near Avenue P and 26th Street East. Deputies pursued the motor home for about eight minutes until it crashed into two more cars at Palmdale Boulevard and 50th Street East. The car containing McWright was dragged more than 100 feet before the motor home overturned. Hall was arrested there. McWright was on his way with his older brother, a cousin and the brother's girlfriend to a Juneteenth celebration at Jackie Robinson Park in Littlerock when the crash occurred. McWright went to Lancaster High School Lancaster High School may refer to:
Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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