Jury deliberations continue Friday morning in the trial of former Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian. Jurors only deliberated for a few minutes on Thursday.
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In 2015, eight people were killed and more than 200 were injured after an Amtrak train Bostian was at the controls of ran off the track.Girlfriend In Custody As Person Of Interest After Grays Ferry Shooting Sends Man To Hospital, Philadelphia Police Say The defense says Bostian was distracted by radio chatter about people throwing rocks at nearby trains.
“The defense has offered situational unawareness as a defense here,” Tom Kline, an attorney for the derailment victims, said. “It strikes me that if he were situationally unaware, that his job was to be aware.” This is the third time prosecutors have brought criminal charges against Bostian. In previous times, the judge threw out the charges and said the tragedy was an accident, not a crime.
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