A Marion County judge has rejected a request from attorneys of the man accused of hitting a bus full of migrant farm workers last May, causing eight deaths, to have the suspect undergo a neurological exam.
Prosecutors say Bryan Howard was driving while high on a combination of marijuana oil and prescription drugs, including Klonopin and Lyrica, that he consumed the night before they say he sideswiped the bus as it took the migrants to a watermelon farm to work.
Dozens of workers on visas from Mexico were on the bus.
Videos showed them stunned and pulling each other out of the wreckage…