{"id":719,"date":"2004-03-03T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/oral_sex_defense\/"},"modified":"2004-03-03T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T02:04:11","slug":"oral_sex_defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/oral_sex_defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Sex Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,113223,00.html\">This<\/a> is a weird case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999 says that she couldn&#8217;t have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time.<br \/>\nHeather Specyalski, 33, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the crash that killed businessman Neil Esposito. Prosecutors allege that she was driving Esposito&#8217;s Mercedes-Benz convertible when it veered off the road and hit several trees.<br \/>\nBut Specyalski claims that Esposito was driving, and she was performing oral sex on him at the time, said her attorney, Jeremiah Donovan. He noted that Esposito&#8217;s pants were down when he was thrown from the car.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nAssistant State&#8217;s Attorney Maureen Platt said the defense is flawed.<br \/>\n&#8220;His pants could have been down because he was mooning a car he was drag racing,&#8221; Platt said. &#8220;His pants could have been down because he was urinating out of a window. His pants could have been down because he wasn&#8217;t feeling well.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm.  I&#8217;m not sure how you prove this either way.  I presume the defendant will testify; it&#8217;s not clear if she has any additional evidence.  I wonder if there any sort of endangerment statute against interfering with a driver when the vehicle is in motion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/oral_sex_defense\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Oral Sex Defense\"><p>This is a weird case: A woman charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999 says that she couldn&#8217;t have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time. Heather Specyalski, 33, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the crash that killed businessman Neil Esposito. Prosecutors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}