Sentence examples for vehicular crimes from inspiring English sources

"It's been needed," said Gayle Dampf, the head of vehicular crimes for the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

"If you are being physically threatened, the law doesn't contemplate that you have to remain at the scene," said Maureen McCormick, a former vehicular crimes prosecutor in Brooklyn.

"Every crash is a totality of the circumstances," said Maureen McCormick, chief of vehicular crimes at the Nassau County district attorney's office.

"Even in the prosecutor's office, you have what I call murder snobs," said Maureen McCormick, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who focused on vehicular crimes.

Joseph Petrosino, a former head of vehicular crimes at the Brooklyn district attorney's office, said: "This area of the law is a very gray area.

Forcing a person to stay off alcohol for months can be an enlightening experience, said Joseph McCormack, chief of the vehicular crimes prosecution bureau in the Bronx.

In the process they weave entertaining stories of vehicular crime, racing, moviemaking and various mishaps and mayhem.

The decision to bring strong charges will probably depend on the reconstruction of the crash by investigators from the Police Department's specialized squad of vehicular crime detectives.

Deena Ryerson, an Oregon prosecutor who deals extensively with vehicular crime, said the court found that injecting any kind of language about serious or moral blameworthiness "adds an additional element to what criminal negligence truly is".

Charging a driver who is not under the influence of alcohol or drugs with vehicular manslaughter would require proving that he was reckless, "a fairly high standard" under the law, "which is going to involve probably speed and some other factor," said Marc C. Gann, a defense lawyer and former Nassau County prosecutor who has handled numerous vehicular crime cases.

With just strong evidence of speeding, "you could have brought charges in the past for recklessness and let the jury decide" whether the driver was guilty of second-degree reckless manslaughter, a more serious crime, said Maureen McCormick, the chief vehicular-crimes prosecutor in Nassau County.