...At least the New Jersey Supreme Court has, anyway.
While I think most reasonable people can agree that texting while driving is a horrible idea, and that people who engage in the practice should be potentially subjected to criminal and civil liability, a recent New Jersey case involving the dreaded practice took a very weird turn. Let's set the stage with the report from CNN:
Kyle Best was behind the wheel of his pickup in September 2009 driving down a rural highway when Shannon Colonna sent him a text.
The two were teens at the time. He was 18; she was 17, and they were dating. They sent each other 62 texts that day, according to court documents.
Let me pause right here to say that the court seems inordinately obsessed with both the number and content of the messages between the two. Honestly, whether they texted each other twice a day every day over the last year or two hundred times a day is not at issue here. Nor if the texts were innocent or more of the Anthony Weiner headline variety. What's important is what happened next:
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