A responding police officer knew from that incident that Blaylock was prohibited from driving. When news broke about the fatal crash several weeks later, the officer emailed prosecutors with what he knew. The fact that Blaylock knew he shouldn’t have been driving allowed them upgrade the charges from second degree vehicular homicide, a misdemeanor, to first degree, a felony. “If that officer had never sent us that email, [Blaylock] would have been charged with second degree, because we would never have known about the doctor’s orders,” said Mosley, the Solicitor General.
