• 11
  • September
    2011

Though Bret Frame's attorney argued otherwise, Judge Carol Husum said that his actions showed a "disregard of life," as Lynn Turner reports for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Husum said, "This was not unforeseeable."

Judge Husum was referring to the drunk-driving car wreck that claimed the lives of two young men.

Prosecutors called many witnesses to the stand to testify against Frame, who was found to be more than three times the limit in blood-alcohol content, after he crashed into another vehicle and killed the driver and passenger.

Witnesses testified that Frame's estimated speed in his pickup truck was from 70 miles per hour to more than 100 miles per hour.

One witness, a driver who nearly avoided getting hit by Frame, said, "I thought for sure he was going to hit me. All I could to was brace for impact. It [Frame's truck] was flying."

The fatal car crash occurred shortly thereafter.

Frame's defense attorney argued that Frame did not demonstrate wanton disregard of life; if prosecutors can show wanton disregard, Frame could ultimately be convicted of second-degree murder.

Source: Kalamazoo Gazette, "Bret Frame's truck came 'out of nowhere' before Texas Township crash that killed 2, witness says," by Lynn Turner, 09/08/11