Daily News | Jurors will now decide if Amtrak engineer’s mistakes in 2015 crash were a crime
The case of Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak engineer operating Train 188 the night of a deadlyBostian, who is charged with causing a catastrophe, eight counts of involuntary manslaughter, and nearly 250 counts of reckless endangerment, did not take the stand during his weeklong trial.
While the details of dispatches were not disputed, their effects were central in the defense led by Brian McMonagle. In his closing argument, McMonagle asked jurors: should Bostian be punished for a mistake caused by a distraction he didn’t create? Leading the prosecution for the state Attorney General’s Office, Christopher Phillips painted a different picture, reminding jurors of the multiple engineers who took the witness stand and described how trains were often struck by projectiles.
Phillips told jurors Bostian knew the risk of accelerating past the speed limit in one of the most difficult sections of his route and negligently did so anyway.
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