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The reason the prosecution is trying him for murder is that they feel they can show he had a "depraved indifference for life." Mainly because he had gotten on the parkway going in the wrong direction a few miles back and had already passed several cars that honked, flashed lights, etc., to try and alert him. Supposedly he told a state trooper that after getting into a fight with his girlfriend @ some party he got in his car and had a "death wish" or something to that effect. For murder charges to stick, they're going to have to prove he knew he was going the wrong way.