All fine and good, but you're (purposely?) ignoring HER criminal history, specifically the types of crimes she has been charged with...
Two years in prison for STALKING. Additional arrests for trespassing, harassment, and intimidation. I'm thinking Prosecutors are going to maintain her pushing forward and running into a pedestrian within a crosswalk as "intimidation", and she already has a prior...
I was wrong about the Criminal recklessness, thinking it was at the misdemeanour level. They have already levelled the charge at the class 6 felony level, and the deadly vehicle enhancement seems to be inevitable...They already distinguished between the injury levels of the 2 victims...
- Criminal recklessness, a level 6 felony
- Leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury, a level 6 felony
- Leaving the scene of an accident resulting in bodily injury, a class A misdemeanour
So you're staking your bet on a woman with previous convictions for crimes of anger like harassment and intimidation, along with actual imprisonment for STALKING being acquitted of two class 6 felonies involving obvious intimidation and endangerment? She inches forward forcing the pedestrian in the crosswalk to step back 4 or 5 steps THEN the pedestrian jumps on the hood. No one jumped on her car while it was stationary, and the guy did not grab her handle until the other person was in a vulnerable position on her hood. Her own passenger had to open his door and jump in while the car was moving...So clearly SHE acted on impulse. Anger?
The driver was not threatened. A petite girl stood in front of her, and she and her passenger were perfectly safe just sitting there. No one is going to buy that she felt "intimidated". I can't just drive ahead when a road crew is working and a flagger is making me wait at a site where Traffic from opposite directions is being funnelled into a 1 lane road. I'm often impatient and curse to myself, but I do NOT drive forward till I'm given the OK...
I can't just say there's no one coming and you can't just keep me here then drive on, just because I want to. If I do, I'm likely going to be charged with and convicted of,among other things, criminal recklessness, because I'm endangering others. The guys not a cop, but he's warning me of the danger of driving forward, and there is usually not a crosswalk involved.
I don't see any way this lady with the criminal record and mental history just walks. Maybe you can be her pro bono Defense Counsel since you are such a proponent of her actions?
Accelerating with other pedestrians and parked cars in view while in a congested downtown area,, running thru red lights, and turning right to throw the passengers off while speeding down a side street are all factors that IMO, also weigh heavily against her. If she could exit Walnut after driving a few more blocks, why couldn't she have done so initially and used any of a myriad of side streets that connect to Walnut as her route North? NONE of this was necessary...