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Look at it this way. Say the deputy was stone cold sober, and did the same thing. Is it vehicular manslaughter when the biker was that much over the speed limit? At 40, could he have stopped, avoided the crash, or simply lessened the crash to the point of it not being fatal?
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But given the circumstance, the two obvious facts of the case are contributory. The cop was drunk, the rider was going 25 over… he should still be at fault some how, some way, if you want to put the blame on the rider. The cop was negligent by failing to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances.