DUI = Murder?

More and more cases othat in the past may be charged as DUI manslaughter are becoming serious offenses like Murder and Vehicular Homicide.

It may be an indication that prosecutors and the general public are simply fed up.

 Laws vary from state to state, but there appears to be a trend among prosecutors to charge drunken drivers with murder if they have more than one previous DUI conviction and kill multiple people, said Laura Dean-Mooney, national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
In New York, a man was convicted of murder in a DUI collision that decapitated a 7-year-old flower girl on her way home in a limo from a wedding. In Missouri, a man with three prior DUI convictions was found guilty of second-degree murder for killing a 19-year-old in a drunken driving crash
And in Alaska, prosecutors are seeking a retrial on a murder charge for a man accused of driving drunk and killing a man on his way home from a fishing trip. The first trial resulted in a hung jury.
MADD, which tracks the issue, doesn't keep statistics on the number of murder convictions for DUI-related deaths. The patchwork of local jurisdictions and differences in state laws make such numbers hard to compile.

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