Minnesota semi driver wanted in I-90 fatality

I read the story on this forum when the guy snoozed and ran somebody over. He called the cops but the y did not find the body.
Turns out he just had a nightmare.
You can say there was a damage.
An expert in court if asked is there any certainty the damage was caused by impact with the victim and if that impact was lethal, he d have to say no. Most likely but not beyond reasonable doubt.

 

No,, actually my use of "highly unlikely" in that particular statement shows proper description, & accuracy in wording, and not jumping to conclusions.
Had I said the car surely didn't hit the victim first, then I would be wrong in jumping far beyond the level of evidence.
I'm well aware of what it takes in court to present clear and convincing evidence, for prosecutorial burden of proof.
We are on a forum. Please don't wrongly assume that if I were the prosecutor I would present evidence using non-definitive terms like unlikely, possible, highly unlikely, etc.

My disgust with your statement sympathizing with the accused does not show I've already condemned him. It simply/clearly shows my disgust at how you have already exonerated him from any and all prosecution. By your previous words "I don't understand how years of incarceration will help anybody in this tragedy."
That alone shows huge pre-evidence bias and would disqualify you from sitting on the jury, because you are severely biased against conviction.
So as the court would clearly deem you too biased, it renders all your statements here to be equally that way.

We obviously agree to disagree. What I find most sickening is that out of 4 people involved in this fatality, all who left the scene, only 1 out of 4 even ended up calling the police, and that happened nearly 1 month after the fact.

 

The photo of Welk is truly incredible. Stereotypical Hollywierd image of the manical trucker....LOL!!!

 

he shouldnt be condemned for hitting him cuz we dont know the circumstances.but he should have have stopped.

 

I have not exonerated anybody. I am just calling a suspect a suspect till proven otherwise.
Yes, you are right about me not being fit for modern day jury.
If found guilty which is possible , I'd rather have the trucker to pay to the victim s family, rather than just keeping him locked up. He is obviously learning his lesson being prosecuted. Do you think prison will make him a better person or something.?
Maybe a China style concentration camp? I d favor manual labor , some kind of training inside, otherwise
Who is paying for mistakes ? Us taxpayers or him mingling with real, violent criminals for a few years?
I just won't be able to say for sure if he is a reckless idiot or a coward , or just a bad driver who grazed a pedestrian on the highway but was not certain because he fell asleep.
Who am I to judge? I know it would take a fraction of a second for any driver not just a Cdl holder to be on this side or the other ...

 

Read about this phenomenon a while ago when people die having a heart attack for example in a crowd and nobody helps.

 

I suppose that behavior is equally "acceptable" in your mind. Regardless, it's quite an apples to clay brick comparison.
A more accurate analogy would be a person having a heart attack while being a patron in a bank, in which a gunman was in the process of robbing.
Oh, and btw, legally that would qualify for a felony-murder charge for the gunman.

 

Oh great, now I am the bad guy

 

The bystander effect, I found it. The more people are around, the less likely you are to be helped.
A well documented social phenomenon.