Posted on 02/29/2008 7:07:52 AM PST by Joiseydude
WEST PALM BEACH — Was the death of a popular middle school principal an accident or was it vehicular homicide?
An accident, a jury has now decided.
Jurors returned not-guilty verdicts this afternoon in the case against Cesar Mejia, a 32-year-old driver who prosecutors say blew through a red light striking the vehicle of Western Pines Middle School principal Margaret Campbell, killing her.
Mejia's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Shawnee Lawrence, had argued before jurors that Mejia was driving the speed limit and in no way, shape or form wanted to run a red ight and kill another human being.
"Tragic? Yes. Sad? Definitely. Homicide? No, no," Lawrence said.
Lawrence had acknowledged to jurors that Mejia, an undocumented alien from Mexico, had no valid drivers license in the United States. Mejia also was charged with driving without a valid license causing death.
Jurors acquitted him of both charges.
At Mejia's two-day trial, traffic homicide prosecutor Ellen Roberts argued that he was more than 400 feet away from the light at Bee Line Highway and Seminole Pratt Whitney Road — a football field and a third —when it changed to yellow.
"He saw that light start to change... that's when he made the decision he was not gonna stop," Roberts said in closing statements this morning. "This crash on March 8, 2006 didn't have to happen. That's all there is to it."
I didn’t now the OJ jury was a traveling show.
Liberal Palm Beach County.....should expect them to value the rights of an illegal alien criminal over those of American citizens.
More of the pro-illegal/anti-American bigotry nonsense
Perhaps the jurists are having their gardeners take their places on the jury.
Another day, another stupid jury.
Since when does an illegal alien driving without a driver’s license have recourse to our U.S. legal system, complete with a taxpayer-funded public defender to get him off the hook?????
Let me guess, they also voted to not deport him and allow him to sue the state for emotional duress.
I guess killing someone in the commission of a crime is no longer a homicide.
Probably since around the same time the American people began legalizing abortion, crowining homosexuals with special rights and worshipping the idol of 'diversity'. You can't undo the fabric of society and religion and expect law and order to prevail. I see clearly why division and chaos prevail in our country today.
so what happens to him? Does he go to work for the McCain campaign?
Wow, such a wrong verdict. Hopefully there is another legal avenue his family can pursue after the illegal.
Former illegals on jury. I guess jorge will now give the driver amnesty.
Bet on it!
This illegal coddling and aiding and abetting these illegal aliens will continue until the victims of the crimes perpetuated by these people sue into bankruptcy the cities that have provided safe haven for the criminals.
It's as simple as that. American citizens who are the collateral damage of the fantasies of the the one-world, open borders scum have to start cleaning out some city coffers or this will never get fixed.
White? Black?
Blanco
Driver not guilty of vehicular homicide in death of Acreage principal
From the link....
Neither Mejia nor his attorney could be reached for comment after the verdict.
So where is the guy...?
correction: Blanca
Running the red lights that Americans won’t.
Right, Mr. Presidente?
Wow, maybe the effect of Rush Limbaugh living in Palm Beach County is having it’s consequences, of course if a Palm Beach county jury acquitted Limbaugh, there would ne big huzzahs on FR, IMO.
We’re gonna get it from someone out there.
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