State v. Seeler

MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Judge.

Introduction

This is a simple story, versions of which are repeated with depressing regularity. Ryan Seeler went to a baseball game, then to a restaurant in downtown St. Louis and then headed home on westbound Interstate Highway 64 (U.S. highway 40). He had had some drinks. He drove into a construction zone on 1-64 in Chesterfield, where he struck and killed Gavin Donahue, a 22-year-old engineering student who was working on a paving project on the highway.

The crime charged, first-degree involuntary manslaughter, should be simple as well. That, unfortunately, is not so.

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