People: Prosecutors decline to charge Caitlyn Jenner in fatal crash
Prosecutors declined to charge
Authorities said Jenner was towing an off-road vehicle on a trailer behind a Cadillac Escalade on Feb. 7 when she crashed into two cars, pushing one into oncoming traffic. Driver
“We believed from the start that a thorough and objective investigation would clear Caitlyn of any criminal wrongdoing,” said
Sheriff’s investigators previously determined that Jenner, 65, was traveling at an unsafe speed for the road conditions at the time and there was enough evidence to support a vehicular manslaughter charge.
A prosecutor wrote in a one-page sheet declining to file charges that Jenner was traveling slightly below the posted speed limit and began braking less than two seconds before the crash. To prove misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, prosecutors would have had to show Jenner was negligent and had violated a basic speed law.
A Los Angeles judge approved Jenner’s petition to formally change her name and gender on Sept. 25. Jenner was born Bruce Jenner and won an Olympic gold medal for the decathlon in 1976.
Court upholds California law to control paparazzi’s driving
A California appellate court has upheld the constitutionality of a law enacted to curtail reckless driving by paparazzi.
The law was used for the first time to prosecute a paparazzo accused of engaging in a high-speed chase of
Wednesday’s ruling by the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles states the law is not overbroad and does not violate the First Amendment as the lower court judge had ruled.
Unless the ruling is overturned, it will reinstate the case against
The 2010 law raises the penalty for those who drive dangerously in pursuit of photos for commercial gain, making it punishable by six months in jail.
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