It's going to **** up their murder case, punching the gas was still reckless though, so they've still got him on manslaughter. It's going to screw their case up even worse if there's good footage of her throwing herself on the car as some have claimed.
Assuming, for the sake of this comment, that it wasn't a case of the guy trying a panicked escape from the mob at the same time the young woman moved in behind him (or threw herself on the car), the prosecutor better not bow to political pressure and vastly over-charge the twerp. Between
D Governor McAwful and
D Mayor Signer, I'm sure the pressure to go for murder when it possibly was negligent manslaughter will be considerable.