Prosecutors have alleged that claims a Boise driver — suspected of several hit-and-run crashes last summer — wasn’t at fault because of a medical condition are “unsubstantiated.”
The Ada County Prosecutor’s Office asked 4th District Judge Jason Scott in a nine-page motion to prohibit 47-year-old Jacob Miller from making any statements or arguments at his upcoming trial that a heart attack or a misfiring pacemaker factored into a crash that severely injured two women downtown.
Miller was driving drunk , with a blood alcohol content of 0.214 — almost three times the legal limit of 0.08 — according to the motion. And medical staff at a local hospital where Miller was taken said claims his pacemaker misfired were “false,” the motion said…