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Florida Adds Jail Time For Speeders – Jalopnik
Four years ago, a Florida driver ran a red light at 85 miles per hour, killed an 11-year-old child who was crossing the street, and got off with a traffic infraction: Failure to stop at a red light. Prosecutors said they simply didn’t have the evidence to charge her with reckless driving, which is a prerequisite in the state for a charge of vehicular homicide. Now Florida has made a new law, defining “dangerous excessive speeding” in hopes of curbing such deaths in the future, but the law has a problem — it may not have been enough to charge Anthony Reznik’s killer.
The new law, HB 351, defines “dangerous excessive speeding” as driving “in excess of the speed limit by 50 mph or more,” or “at 100 mph or more in a manner that threatens the safety of other persons or property or interferes with the operation of any vehicle.” The punishment it lays out for dangerous excessive speeding is up to 30 days in jail and/or a $500 fine for a first offense, and going up for further offenses.
The problem
The problem with HB 351, often called the Anthony Reznik Act in its early days, is that it may not have actually done much to help Reznik himself. The law punishes drivers who hit 50 or more miles per hour over the posted speed limit, but the street on which he was killed has a posted limit of 35 mph, according to signs viewed on Google Street View. Reports from 2021 say Samentha Toussaint, the driver who killed Reznik, was traveling around 85 miles per hour when she blew the red light. The “around” here is key — at 84 miles per hour, she would not legally be dangerously excessively speeding, and would get off with the exact same ticket for running a red. Even if she had been traveling exactly 85, or 86, or higher, how would a prosecutor sufficiently prove that? Without a radar gun onsite, could anyone prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she wasn’t doing a mere 84?
The issue with HB 351 is that it dodges the core issue of vehicular homicide: The act of killing someone with a car is not, in itself, sufficiently punished. There are prerequisites, other requirements to warrant a charge, and those are how Toussaint got off scot-free for killing a child. If Florida’s legislature really wanted to protect kids like Reznik, it could simply have removed those prerequisites and instituted punishments for all car-induced killing, but it chose not to. In Florida, it’s apparently still fine to kill with your car so long as you don’t exceed 49 mph over the speed limit while doing so. HB 351 is a step in the right direction, but it’s not walking the right path.
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Florida couple in alleged embryo mix-up have identified biological parents of ‘non-caucasian’ baby
A Florida couple who claimed a fertility clinic error led the woman giving birth to a “non-Caucasian child” who was not related to them said they have identified their child’s biological parents, according to reports.
“The results of testing delivered to us today confirm that our baby’s genetic parents have been identified,” Tiffany Score and Steven Mills said in a statement obtained by People on Wednesday.
Score and Mills filed a lawsuit in January against Fertility Center of Orlando and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, alleging that another patient’s embryo was implanted in Score’s uterus in April 2025.
The mix-up led to the birth of their now 4-month-old daughter, Shea, who is not biologically related to them, the filing alleged.
“This ends one chapter in our heartbreaking journey, but it raises new issues that will have to be resolved,” the statement continued. “In addition, questions about the disposition of our own embryos are still unanswered and are even more unlikely to ever be answered.”
“Only one thing is as absolutely certain today as it was on the day our daughter was born —we will love and will be this child’s parents forever.”
The couple added that they will respect the privacy of Shea’s biological parents and will keep their identities “confidential.”
Score and Mills, who are both white, stored three viable embryos at the Longwood clinic in 2020 for in vitro fertilization, a process that creates embryos and stores them until pregnancy.
Five years later, after an embryo was implanted, the couple gave birth to a “beautiful, healthy female child” on Dec. 11, 2025, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 22 in Orange County Circuit Court and obtained by Law & Crime.
“Tragically, while both Jane Doe and John Doe are racially Caucasian, Baby Doe displayed the physical appearance of a racially non-Caucasian child,” the lawsuit said.
Further genetic testing confirmed that baby Shea had no biological relationship to either parent — raising questions about where their embryos had gone or whether another woman was impregnated with their biological child.
The new parents had an “intensely strong emotional bond” with their child during pregnancy and wished to keep the girl, but recognized she “should legally and morally be united with her genetic parents so long as they are fit, able and willing to take her,” the lawsuit stated.
Scarola told People, following Wednesday’s development, that Shea’s biological parents have not made any requests to take her into custody.
“Remaining questions about the fate of Tiffany and Steven’s unaccounted for embryos…are still pending,” Scarola said.
“The current legal proceeding will remain open to address those matters,” the attorney added. “However, we expect that we will now also begin to focus on the need for our clients to be compensated for the expenses they have incurred and the severe emotional trauma that they endured and will continue to experience.”
The Fertility Clinic of Orlando announced earlier this month that it would close by May 20 — a decision leadership said was made after “thoughtful consideration.”
Neither Scarola nor the clinic immediately responded to The Post’s request for comment.
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Florida investigating AI role in mass shooting at university
Florida on Tuesday announced a criminal probe into whether artificial intelligence played a role in a deadly mass shooting at a university in the US state.
“If ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder,” Uthmeier said.
Florida law allows anyone who assists or counsels someone in the commission of a crime to be treated as an “aider and abettor” bearing the same responsibility as the perpetrator, according to Uthmeier.
In exchanges with ChatGPT, the accused shooter sought advice on what type of gun and ammunition to use, as well as where and when on campus a lot of people would likely be found, the state attorney general said during a press briefing.
“Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,” an OpenAI spokesperson said.
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