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NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Presenting the Chicken Selects defense. That's the strategy the legal team for Taconic Parkway death driver Diane Schuler came up with Thursday to counter an expected lawsuit from relatives of the seven people she killed.
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Some folks may remember that I am a one-time-fan-turned-long-time critic of Law and Order . The show began (20 years ago!) when crime was still a big deal in New York and the ripped-from-the-headlines stories were about real crimes. Some of those crimes even had a gritty anti-P.C. angle to them (Tawana Brawley, Larry Hogue, Bernie Goetz etc). But about ten years ago, the show became increasingly detached...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
One of the saddest news stories of the summer just got sadder — the husband of Diane Schuler, whose wrong-way drunk-driving crash killed her and seven others, tells New York Magazine he still... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Parents Behaving Badly (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Article1, Article2, Article3, Article4 Diane Schuler has killed seven people. Four of them were children, and one of them was her own child. Diane was drunk. And stoned. And driving these kids back from a camping trip. There was only one survivor from the horrific crash that occurred after she drove almost two miles on the [...]
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The woman who killed eight people, including herself, when she drove the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway vomited twice on the side of the road before the collision. Police reports obtained by the Post reveal that just under two hours before the fatal crash — witnesses "noticed an adult female outside of the vehicle with brown hair, wearing blue, knee-length shorts, bent over with her hands...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Wrong-way driver Diane Schuler -- whose autopsy showed 6 grams of undigested booze in her stomach -- was seen vomiting by the side of the road twice before her deadly head-on crash, police reports obtained by The Post showed. Schuler stopped her r...
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The Eagle Nation (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- New York State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user.The report says Diane Schuler's husband tol ...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The woman who killed eight people, including herself, when she drove her minivan the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway was a heavy drinker and frequent marijuana smoker, the woman's sister-in-law told investigators. Despite her husband's repeated claims that his wife wasn't an alcoholic or regular drug user, Diane Schuler's in-law revealed to police that the 36-year-old "was a hard drinker"...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Wrong-way Taconic driver Diane Schuler smoked pot "on a regular basis" after putting her kids to bed and was downing daiquiris the weekend of the fiery crash that claimed eight lives -- despite repeated claims by her husband that she never drank, a...
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NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The sister-in-law of Taconic Parkway wrong-way driver Diane Schuler has told police Schuler smoked pot every day, according to a lawyer for victims of the crash.
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The sister-in-law of Taconic Parkway wrong-way driver Diane Schuler has told police Schuler smoked pot every day, according to a lawyer for victims of the crash.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The sister-in-law of Diane Schuler told investigators that Ms. Schuler smoked marijuana regularly and was a heavy drinker, according to a lawyer for the family of two of the victims.
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
After Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway and killed eight people because — according to the Westchester medical examiner — she was drunk and high , her husband and family vowed to clear her name. “She wasn’t an alcoholic,” her husband Danny Schuler says. For months, the family’s representatives have said they intended to do new tests...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Wrong-way driver mom Diane Schuler smoked pot on a regular basis and was drinking the weekend before the fiery crash that killed eight, according to a new report released today. Her husband had claimed she did not booze it up and was the perfect mom....
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A private investigator representing the husband of Diane Schuler, the woman who drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway, killing herself, her daughter, three nieces, and, in another car, three men, says that Daniel Schuler cannot afford additional toxicology reports. Schuler had hoped to disprove medical findings that showed his wife was drunk and high at the time of the crash. Thomas Ruskin...
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tamilselvan1 | 08/06/2009
The husband of Taconic death driver Diane Schuler wants his wife's body exhumed for an independent autopsy today, a source close to the family told the Daily News.