Drunk drivers try to get away with the claim they weren't driving. Long ago when my oldest was a toddler, I heard a loud bang outside and immediately went to look, my child in my arms. A few houses down the street, a car had slammed into the rear of a parked truck. Skip to the cops investigating, and a smart cop going around to bystanders asking for witnesses.
I told him I observed a 2nd car following, with a woman getting out to help the sole driver in the car that crashed (he was drunk). Cop asked me if I would sign my statement. He told me the woman said she was the driver. I looked at my daughter, and thought what if the drunk driver had hit her or other kids. I signed my name. When the cop showed the two accident "victims" my statement, they confessed the drunk man was driving after they left a bar.
I agree that *can* happen, but it is also fairly common that two people are driving, have an accident where the passenger is incapacitated, usually just knocked out, and the driver bolts.
This is why I mentioned the importance of fingerprints (and DNA) on the steering wheel and keys. If it is just his, case closed. If it is someone else’s on top, perhaps a different story.
Then there is another potential twist about how he was shot. If he was shot at the angle of somebody outside the car, on either side, or if he was shot at the angle of somebody sitting in the driver’s seat.
I was rather mystified why none of this got mention during the trial, which solely focused on the father.