"You have a situation where...people ski at different rates of speed without criminal culpability. Where you draw the line between skiing the way you ski and skiing in such a way as to raise issues of criminal conduct is obviously a difficult issue."
--Brett Heckman, an attorney for Nathan Hall, yesterday. Hall, 18, is being prosecuted in the death of Alan Cobb, a skier with whom he collided while on the job as a ski resort employee. Prosectuors are arguing that a speeding skier is a weapon, much the same way as is a bat or a piece of wood.
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