The blood alcohol level of the L Bar employee will be revealed in court. If it turns out he was not legally drunk when he killed Rusty, that charge should be dropped. If he was legally drunk, then all alcohol-related charges should remain. Let’s wait and see.

But let’s play devil’s advocate and say Meegan hadn’t even had one drink that night. The fact that he struck a very large man hard enough to separate him from his bicycle–with the victim ending up on his Jeep’s hood partially blocking the windshield and the bicycle winding up being dragged underneath–would indicate Meegan had to have known he had hit a human being.

Eyewitness reports and police investigations clearly show the sequence of events. Rusty was on the hood of the Jeep until Meegan hit a curb and some lane dividers, thus causing Rusty to fall onto the road. What did Meegan then do? He sped away, apparently unconcerned about the man he had just hit. He drove to the next stop light on Rt. 1, turned right, drove a block to the entrance of the CVS parking lot, then made a sharp turn to then stop in the lot. At this location, he then attempted to extricate the bicycle from beneath the Jeep. He was arrested at this location before he could continue his flight from the area.

At the least, it should be revealed in court that Meegan struck and killed a man on a bicycle, and did everything he could to ignore the victim’s need for help while trying to save his own skin by fleeing the scene of the crime. In my opinion, a plea bargain should not even be considered by prosecutors if the facts shown in court match the eyewitness reports and early investigation.