The Facts:
The media still isn’t focusing on the distinction between the Thursday booking of Stallworth on charges of DUI manslaughter and the eventual decision by prosecutors to charge him with DUI manslaughter. On Wednesday, a member of Stallworth’s legal team stressed to us that, in this case, there’s a significant potential difference. As we now understand it, the significant potential difference was/is that prosecutors could ultimately decide not to charge Stallworth with DUI manslaughter, but to charge him only with DUI.
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
According to PFT's Mike Florio, the key here is the precise language of the Florida Statutes. Apparently, a person who is driving while drunk doesn’t commit DUI manslaughter simply by driving drunk and being involved in an accident resulting in another person’s death. To be liable for DUI manslaughter, the drunk driver also must have caused or contributed to the causation of the incident. The key, as it always is in criminal cases, is reasonable doubt. Florio went on to suggest that Stallworth will find expert accident investigators to testify on his behalf in an effort to create that reasonable doubt. ... Stay tuned.
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