Murder by drunk driving.

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A proposed bill in New York. sponsored by Assemblyman Mike Spano, would allow prosecutors to charge drunk drivers with second-degree murder if their blood alcohol content (BAC) was .18 or higher and they caused a fatality. Elements of second degree murder include depraved indifference to human life, reckless conduct that gravely endangers others and causing a death. Assemblyman Spano says that "anyone who gets behind the wheel with a BAC twice...

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