Posted on Nov 22, 2015

Homecoming parade crash suspect WAS NOT intoxicated, does this change your initial opinion any?

MSgt Curtis Ellis

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I know all evidence is not in yet, just asking for your best guess based on what we have... Personally, I think she will be a mental case and there was no mention of additional drug (medication) toxicology testing or other medical issues...

STILLWATER, Okla. – A document filed in court shows the woman accused of killing four people and injuring dozens of others after driving through Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade last month had a blood-alcohol content lower than the legal intoxication threshold.

The Tulsa World reports that 25-year-old Adacia Chambers was ordered to submit to a blood alcohol test at Stillwater Medical Center following the Oct. 24 crash.

A document filed Thursday in Payne County District Court by defense attorney Tony Coleman indicates her blood-alcohol content was 0.01. The legal threshold for intoxication is 0.08.

Chambers faces four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of assault and battery with means likely to produce death.

Prosecutors say evidence suggests it was "an intentional act."

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No, this doesn't change my opinion. If she wasn't intoxicated, then it was an intentional act. She needs to burn..

Maybe it will change, but it depends on the completion of her tox screen and her mental evaluation

Yes, it changed my initial opinion. She still needs to burn, just not so much regardless of the tox screen and mental eval

Wait a minute... .01 can still be considered drunk... Right?

Uh... What is a tox screen?

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Capt Mark Strobl

Posted 9 y ago

Like any mass murder (which I believe this would qualify), we need to examine the factors of mental health. Could screening have prevented this? Probably not. Should she be held accountable? Absolutely. However, I would hope a judge & jury consider mental health when assigning the penalty... or maybe better put, therapy. I don't believe this will meet the requisites of 1st Deg Murder. We can't prevent fate. But, we can't stuff the mentally ill into a box and blissfully hope they get better. When Ms. Chambers is reintegrated into our society, we're all going to have to deal with the precipitate of our penal system.

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MSgt Curtis Ellis

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Capt Mark Strobl I totally agree with your opinion and I hope that, regardless of how it turns out, that if mentally illness is the culprit, it doesn't get "stuffed" into a box. Thanks for your comment!

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