Prosecutors respond to wrong-way driver's appeal
Photo credit: Newsday / Dick Yarwood | A file photo of Martin Heidgen leaving Nassau County Court after his arraignment. (July 27, 2007)
No matter how drunk Martin Heidgen was when he drove the wrong way on the Meadowbrook Parkway in July 2005, crashing into a limousine and killing two people, he still committed murder.
That's what prosecutors argued in legal papers filed Friday in response to Heidgen's appeal of his October 2006 conviction for depraved-indifference murder.
In a 100-page argument filed with a state Appellate...
