Motorhome driver sentenced in fatal accident

EV2 wrote:
Wow, not sure why we even have court when you can make all of these decisive conclusions from a story filed by a news reporter. I have yet to see an accurate and complete news story on any occasion where I have personal knowledge of the event and often the story is totally wrong. But, apparently everyone else knows what happened. So much for a jury of peers.

There was no jury of peers, this case never went to trial. He was offered a plea deal in lieu of a court trial and he took it. What he plead guilty to is Reckless Homicide.

Here is Tenn's definition: Reckless homicide or recklessly killing a person (other than with a vehicle) is also a crime. It's a Class D felony.

Notice that it says "other than with a vehicle"? It appears the higher charge of Vehicular Homicide was dropped so that the murderer would plead to a lesser charge and the county wouldn't have to spend money on an expensive trial. One doesn't have to be present to know what took place based on my 30 years as a cop. Seen too many plea deals go down.