Goldberg v. Blackman

How courts have described this case

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• holding the evidence was insufficient to prove felony child neglect where an intoxicated mother waited twenty minutes before driving, maintained a speed below the legal limit, and applied brakes to mitigate the risk of injury to her child passenger
• rejecting “the proposition that voluntary intoxication standing alone is sufficient to constitute criminal negligence for the purpose of felony child neglect”
• reversing conviction where “nothing . . . other than the consumption of alcohol . . . suggest[ed] any negligence on [the defendant’s] part”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).