Lower bond denied for alleged OP hit-and-run driver
By Justin Kendall in Follow That Story, News
Fri., Nov. 6 2009 @ 9:20AM
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| Jill Conaghan |
The Kansas City Star reports that the judge refused to lower Conaghan's bond due to her history of drug abuse. The judge even said her abuse of drugs left him "genuinely concerned about public safety."
Meanwhile, Conaghan's defense attorneys argued in favor of allowing her to finish an out-of-state, drug-treatment program.
From the Star:
Jill Kenney, assistant prosecutor, countered, "Any attempt to get her into treatment now is too little, too late."Conaghan is accused of running over 70-year-old Sandra Carocari, who was tending to her garden in her front lawn when she was struck and killed by a van. The van's driver fled the scene -- in the 9800 block of West 99th Terrace -- but later returned and admitted hitting Carocari.
She noted that the teen was caught possessing alcohol while with a convicted marijuana dealer less than two weeks after the fatal accident. She also was allegedly caught in possession two more times before the end of September, the prosecutor said.
Johnson County prosecutors charged Conaghan on Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence, failure to stop at an accident resulting in death, improper driving on a laned road, driving on a sidewalk, and three counts of consumption of liquor by a minor. The minor in possession charges are for three incidents -- July 30, August 24 and September 23 -- unrelated to the hit-and-run incident.
Conaghan's next hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. December 10.
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