Cecilia Slaby Update: O, M, G
Just read this, this, …. and this (HT NixGuy).
UPDATE: The story got major coverage on the Today Show this morning (Nix notes the video here). The prosecutor claims he would have had to prove “recklessness” and not “mere negligence” to have been able to charge her. Given actual prosecutions in other similar circumstances, consider me very skeptical.
UPDATE 2: This is the second hornet stirred from what will surely be a very large nest.
UPDATE 3: Given the background of the underlying story in Update 2, I wouldn’t bet against the Slaby situation and a similar one in St. Louis (HT Cincinnati Black Blog) being mentioned at Michael Vick’s sentencing hearing on December 10. Yeah, you just read that. I’m not saying I agree with it, or that it’s going to sway the judge. I’m saying that the opening for the opportunistic argument is there, and that it sadly has some justification.
