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Mercedes driver involved in 13 prior wrecks before Windsor Hills crash that killed 5, D.A. says
Los Angeles Times via yahoo ^ | August 9, 2022 | Richard Winton, Nathan Solis, and Noah Goldberg

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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To: grundle

WOW, finally a criminal Gascon is willing to hold on bail. Amazing. She only had to kill an ENTIRE FAMILY to make that cut.


41 posted on 08/09/2022 6:45:03 PM PDT by jocon307 (No Dems win - Nov 22)
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To: SaveFerris

So, should be given another chance and maybe improve her score.


42 posted on 08/09/2022 6:45:46 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: SauronOfMordor

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.


43 posted on 08/09/2022 6:47:42 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: RummyChick

Psycopath - no empathy, all about her. 1 in 25 people is a psycopath.


44 posted on 08/09/2022 6:47:43 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

I wonder if the perp ever harmed any of her patients...


45 posted on 08/09/2022 6:51:41 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: All

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.


46 posted on 08/09/2022 6:57:14 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: rlmorel

“So THAT’S where OJ Simpson went!”

BOL! You owe me a new Chromebook.


47 posted on 08/09/2022 7:09:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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To: The Great RJ

Look at her picture.


48 posted on 08/09/2022 7:17:01 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Chickensoup

Not that was the red diaper prosecutor in San Francisco whose parents were bank robbers and friends of Bill Ayers.


49 posted on 08/09/2022 7:20:26 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: T.B. Yoits

She liked to minimize her travel time.


50 posted on 08/09/2022 7:21:14 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: grundle

Yikes!


51 posted on 08/09/2022 7:47:32 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Grampa Dave
Heh, it did kind of look like him for a second. Or Michelle Obama! Wait...

Michelle Obama is OJ Simpson! OJ Simpson is Michelle Obama!

Michelle Obama is a MAN!

OMG! EINHORN IS A MAN!


52 posted on 08/09/2022 7:52:19 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: grundle

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.


53 posted on 08/09/2022 7:54:19 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,687,909 users on Truth Social)
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To: jocon307

I was under the impression that the voters recalled him. But it is California. So....


54 posted on 08/09/2022 8:00:47 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport

SF not LA!


55 posted on 08/09/2022 8:04:42 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: kabar

She may not have had any insurance, or what in IL we call, “SR-22”, or basic minimal insurance. Just enough to be legal.


56 posted on 08/09/2022 8:53:35 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Grampa Dave

You wouldn’t want to charge her for the extra ketchup for her fries.


57 posted on 08/10/2022 12:10:50 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: sport

Chesa Boudin in SF got recalled. They are trying to recall Gascon in LA next.


58 posted on 08/10/2022 12:34:56 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: grundle
Ryan’s unborn child cannot be included in those charges.

Of course not. Unborn children are known to the State of California to be non-human.

59 posted on 08/10/2022 12:45:01 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Gaston is another Soros plant then!


60 posted on 08/10/2022 3:46:37 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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