What is the test for a defendant to be found guilty of a charge of reckless driving?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Alderson, 144 Misc.2d 133, 540 N.Y.S.2d 948 (N.Y. City Ct. 1989):
Second: The injury is of such gravity that, according to ordinary standards of intelligence and morality, the desirability and urgency of avoiding such injury clearly outweigh the desirability of avoiding the injury sought to be prevented by the statute defining the offense in issue. People v. Brown, 70 Misc.2d 224, 227-8, 333 N.Y.S.2d 342 (New York County 1972).
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