Stracar v. State

Appellant, Angela Stracar, was convicted following a jury trial of two counts of vehicular homicide.1 She challenges those convictions, arguing that the trial court erred in denying her motions for judgment of acquittal on the basis that the State’s evidence failed to show that she was driving in a reckless manner sufficient to prove the charges. We agree, and reverse.

The trial court recounted the facts of the case in its written order denying the motions for judgment of acquittal. That order states, in pertinent part:

The evidence at trial was that the Defendant [Stracar] was driving a…