MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A new law increasing penalties for fatal drunken-driving accidents corrects an “injustice,” according to Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood.
Previously, it was possible for impaired drivers to receive more prison time for causing a non-fatal accident than for causing a wreck that resulted in someone’s death. Blackwood said that was the case for the man convicted in the death of Devinee Rooney, who died days shy of graduating from Theodore High School in 2020.
A jury found Yaderik Madera-Morales guilty of the lesser offense of criminally negligent homicide. Under sentencing rules in effect at the time, he could not be imprisoned for more than two years on the Class C felony…