Hit-and-run suspect says a smartphone app caused him to hit a pedestrian without realizing it

[Robb]

27. Thanks for the link. It looks like a previous case

...cited by the defense is as/more interesting:

Before the trial and in his motion for a new trial, Nelson argued that a precedent case, State v. Al-Naseer, the Minnesota Supreme Court established that a defendant in a criminal vehicular homicide case must know at the time that she had struck a person or vehicle.

The Supreme Court overturned the conviction in the Al-Naseer case after finding reasonable doubt that the man knew he had struck a person or car....

..."Defendant essentially made these same arguments in her motion to dismiss for lack of probable cause and those arguments were rejected by this court," the prosecutor wrote. She went on to note that in the Al-Naseer case, experts for the state conceded the man could have been asleep when he crashed, but "there was absolutely NO evidence that the Defendant Senser was asleep at the time of the crash."

All interesting stuff. If the victim dies I suppose this would apply; probably not as high a bar if he doesn't.