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Ala authorities dropping charges against Fla man
BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities won't prosecute a Florida man in the deaths of his mother and sister in a 2008 boating crash on the Alabama coast.
Baldwin County District Attorney Hallie Dixon tells the Press-Register of Mobile her office decided to drop charges against 33-year-old Michael Phillip Driver of Pensacola, Fla., after the defense presented two new witnesses at a hearing.
Driver was indicted in May on charges of driving a boat in Perdido Bay during an accident that killed his mother, 68-year-old Nancy Driver, and his sister, 44-year-old Kathryn Liscoe. Police at the time said the man was under the influence of alcohol.
But Driver's attorney says two people were ready to testify that the man wasn't driving the boat. Prosecutors are now dismissing the indictment.
