Driver charged with murder after dashboard DVD player found in car after accident
A man in Alaska went on trial last week on charges of second-degree murder after police found a dashboard DVD player in his car after a fatal accident where he struck and killed two people in another car. It's not illegal to operate a DVD player in view of a driver in the state of Alaska (though it is in plenty of other places), so prosecutors are arguing that he "knowingly engaged in conduct showing extreme indifference to human life" when he decided to watch the movie Road Trip in his car rather than pay full attention to the road (though you could probably argue that the producers showed similar indifference when making the film). The driver, not surprisingly, denies having the DVD player on in the first place or that he was using the PlayStation 2 he also had in the car.
[Thanks, Hideki]
