Now that State Police have released new video that showed Kyren Lacy’s role in last December’s fatal crash in Thibodaux, does that change things? Late last week, Lacy’s lawyer suggested that video taken from a different angle exonerated the late LSU star of any wrongdoing. But the new video clearly shows him speeding left of center in a no-passing zone, leading to an oncoming driver to swerve left to avoid hitting him and instead crashing head-on into an SUV, killing that vehicle’s driver. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says based on the new video, he has no issue with how State Police investigated and charged Lacy.
“And I think that there are strong issues with convicting him of a crime. But I think there was enough there to at least justify the initial step of an arrest,” Borghardt said.
Borghardt says even though it’s a moot point since Lacy has since died, proving that he caused the crash beyond a reasonable doubt might have been a tall task for prosecutors.
“There’s other evidence that suggests, well, maybe he wasn’t direct calls of the accident, but maybe there was a part of what he did that may have been either an intervening causation or that there might have been shared responsibility,” Borghardt explained.
Borghardt says he disagrees with any notion that Lacy’s civil rights were violated, and he’s the first to call out any police wrongdoing.
“I don’t know that there is anything inappropriate about the State Police making the arrest. I think that this is a case that would have been defensible, if the DA’s office would have gotten an indictment of grand jury,” Borghardt said.
