The state Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision last Thursday overturned the conviction because it was based not on Otto's driving but the unsafe condition of the trailer-pulling dump truck Otto was driving that crashed into a vehicle at an intersection, causing a backhoe and the trailer tip onto a car in which Giana Giannini was the passenger.
Judge Edward Servitto ruled in favor of the prosecution in the case of Timothy Otto of Chesterfield Township, who was charged with second-degree murder, reckless driving causing death and vehicular manslaughter for the death of 10-year-old Giana Giannini. The second-degree murder charge was dismissed, and Otto's reckless driving causing death conviction was reversed Thursday by the state Court of Appeals.
Appeals Court judges Noah P. Hood and Elizabeth L. Gleicher in a 17-page opinion released Friday accuse prosecutors of 'riffing on equivocal language' of the law and call their theory 'novel,' the first time anyone in the state has been convicted of reckless driving under it.
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