Updated: 5:48 p.m.
published: 12/8/2003
FLANDREAU - A Moody County jury has convicted Rep. Bill Janklow of second-degree manslaughter in connection with the August traffic accident that killed a Minnesota motorcyclist.
The jury also found the congressman guilty of three misdemeanors, including reckless driving, speeding and running a stop sign.
The jurors, eight women and four men, deliberated about five hours before returning the guilty verdicts.
Janklow was charged after colliding with Randy Scott, of Hardwick, Minn., at a rural intersection in Moody County on Aug. 16.
Scott died at the scene.
Investigators said the congressman was driving 71 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone when he ran a stop sign and collided with Scott.
Janklow's lawyers said during trial that his reflexes were dulled by low blood sugar as a result of diabetes, which he didn't realize because the symptoms were masked by a hypertension drug.
I guess low blood sugar causes him to have a heavy foot on the gas peddle also?
I saw a clip of him on the news where at some conference he was laughing about speeding all the time and he said he just pays the fines.
Scum Bag