Legal Opinion
State v. Lapp
Montana Supreme Court
Decided February 4, 1983No. 82-127PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Haswell
Defendant Lapp was charged and convicted of negligent homicide by a Custer County jury. He now appeals the judgment of conviction and the denial of his motion to suppress. We affirm.
At around 6:00 a.m. on September 16, 1981, defendant Lapp was involved in a two-car collision in Custer County. Lapp’s vehicle was proceeding east in the west-bound lane of Interstate 94, a divided highway, when it collided with a vehicle driven by Merlin Benjamin. Benjamin died as a result of injuries sustained in the accident.
Lapp was taken to the hospital by ambulance before the investigating highway patrolman,…
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