Legal Opinion
State v. Hinds
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided March 24, 1997No. 39232-8-IPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Kennedy, A.C.J.
Forty-four-year-old Patricia Baggs died in a one-car accident as a result of eighteen-year-old Jason Paul Hinds’s reckless driving. Hinds had been drinking whiskey given to him by Baggs, and was driving Baggs’s car with her permission. He pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and received an exceptional sentence downward. The court concluded that Baggs was a willing participant in the offense to a significant degree because she provided alcohol to Hinds and then allowed him to drive her car. We agree with the State that there must be a causal connection between Baggs’s conduct…
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