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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 24, 2017
A case in Knox County asks the question of whether a motorist who causes a death can be charged with murder under state law, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. Ralpheal Cameron Coffey of Oak Ridge is accused of killing an innocent motorist and his own passenger while behind the wheel trying to outrun law enforcement in May 2016. Prosecutors convinced a grand jury to charge Coffey with two counts of second-degree murder, a charge that hasn’t been used for a case like this one since 1989.