Posted on 08/09/2022 5:08:25 PM PDT by grundle
The nurse accused of killing five people last week when her Mercedes plowed into traffic at a busy Windsor Hills intersection had been involved in 13 previous crashes, Los Angeles County prosecutors alleged Monday in charging her with murder.
the driver, Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37
The Mercedes does not appear to slow before running a red light shortly after 1:30 p.m. The light had been red for nine seconds before the car barreled through the intersection, slamming into multiple cars, prosecutors said. The Mercedes burst into flames and hurtled into a light pole, where it came to rest.
Prosecutors say Linton was speeding as fast as 90 mph.
At least six vehicles were involved in the crash, according to California Highway Patrol investigators. In addition to the fatalities, eight people were injured.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said there is no evidence of any alcohol use by Linton at this point.
In announcing charges against her Monday, he declined to discuss what led to the crash, saying it was still under investigation and he was “not going to get into the details.”
Linton was charged Monday with six counts of murder and five counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. The vehicular manslaughter charges are for the deaths of the four adults and the baby, who was about two weeks shy of his first birthday. Ryan’s unborn child cannot be included in those charges.
Linton faces up to life in prison if convicted of all charges.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Natalie Stone denied her bail, which previously had been set at $9 million, at the request of the district attorney’s office, which said she is a flight risk. Linton was set to leave L.A. and travel to Hawaii for work, prosecutors said.
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WOW, finally a criminal Gascon is willing to hold on bail. Amazing. She only had to kill an ENTIRE FAMILY to make that cut.
So, should be given another chance and maybe improve her score.
Right, and they are saying she was not intoxicated. Don’t know about the priors, but haven’t heard they were DUIs either.
Some people can be quite destructive stone cold sober.
Psycopath - no empathy, all about her. 1 in 25 people is a psycopath.
I wonder if the perp ever harmed any of her patients...
Had she killed white people? She’d be out on bail.
Quite an ad for Mercedes as well. 90+ mph and she survived all that. Good airbag system.
Likely a quota system got her the degree and job.
“So THAT’S where OJ Simpson went!”
BOL! You owe me a new Chromebook.
Look at her picture.
Not that was the red diaper prosecutor in San Francisco whose parents were bank robbers and friends of Bill Ayers.
She liked to minimize her travel time.
Yikes!
Michelle Obama is OJ Simpson! OJ Simpson is Michelle Obama!
Michelle Obama is a MAN!
13 wrecks...I’ve only had three in over 40 years of driving and two of those were just fender benders. The one major one was me getting rear-ended.
I was under the impression that the voters recalled him. But it is California. So....
SF not LA!
She may not have had any insurance, or what in IL we call, “SR-22”, or basic minimal insurance. Just enough to be legal.
You wouldn’t want to charge her for the extra ketchup for her fries.
Chesa Boudin in SF got recalled. They are trying to recall Gascon in LA next.
Of course not. Unborn children are known to the State of California to be non-human.
Gaston is another Soros plant then!
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