STATE v. SMITH

No. A11-1687.

819 N.W.2d 724 (2012)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Eddie Cortez SMITH, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

September 4, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Swanson , Attorney General, John J. Choi , Ramsey County Attorney, Kaarin Long , Assistant County Attorney, St. Paul, MN, for respondent.

Bradford Colbert , Jessica Merz Godes , Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners, St. Paul, MN, for appellant.

Considered and decided by WRIGHT, Presiding Judge; ROSS, Judge; and HOOTEN, Judge.


OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

Eddie Smith was driving drunk when his car collided with another one in which 93-year-old Edith Schouveller was a passenger. Schouveller was hospitalized with a brain injury, scalp laceration, and multiple spinal fractures. She remained hospitalized and contracted pneumonia, requiring intubation to breathe. But her do-not-resuscitate order prevented doctors from ordering the intubation procedure...

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