Oct. 26, 2026
Do's warning in impaired-driving murder case shapes later ruling
Justice Truc Do's concurrence in an impaired-driving murder case influenced a later appellate ruling. The former homicide prosecutor and judge seeks a 12-year term on the 4th District Court of Appeal.
Justice Truc T. Do agreed that a woman who led police on a 100-mph freeway chase while on oxycodone could not be tried for murder of a trucker killed half a mile behind her, 30 minutes after her car crashed. But she warned that the panel majority's reasoning could be misread to bar murder charges whenever an impaired driver passes out.
One foreseeable consequence of driving under the influence, she wrote in a concurrence in People v. Superior Court (Chagolla) (2024), &...
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