He's just trying to have plausible deniability in case he gets sued. By feigning ignorance from the beginning, he's making the prosecutor work to have to prove that he knew she was a drunk.

She might have had a keto acidosis event, That will give slurd speach and a high bac. It would also give her confusion and vision issues. Maybe she smoke some pot the day before.

Ketoacidosis does not lead to a high BAC. It can be caused by the dehydration caused by excessive alcohol consumption, however . . .

Id marry her agian, right after this trip to Gallagers 2000 is over.

With that BAC plus the reserve in stomach, this guy claiming diabetes just about makes him a suspect.

According to her family, she would never see a doctor if she was sick, she would just power through it. So if she did have diabetes and her husband knew it and she refused to go to the doctor, it still makes his a d-bag for leaving her to drive 5 children home by herself.

The bottle was found, broken, in the car.

Also, the family attorney appears to be rather uneducated in medical issues that she is trying to push. E.g., "Nonetheless, Barbara did say after today’s press conference that it was possible Diane Schuler drank alcohol to raise her blood sugar level.”

“You might want to self-medicate with something to bring the level up,” Barbara said".

Unfortunately, that makes no sense, since alcohol will lower your blood sugar, especially if she *was* diabetic.

And if you want to raise your blood sugar there are millions of better ways to do it than drinking vodka while driving a minivan full of kids.

Yeah, but orange juice tastes funny without vodka in it.

I can think of a million questions and very few certainties, and yet I can't seem to stop myself from commenting. For instance, was the vodka bottle found *in* the van, or near it? If it did come from the van, could it have belonged to the Hance family (the car's owners) and not the Schulers? Who is this malicious piece of shit 'friend' spouting off to the Post (shocker!) anonymously? Is the lawyer's story that a stroke caused her to start drinking? Don't the Bastardi/Longo families see that the Hances and Schulers have been punished enough? Will money really matter to anyone other than the insurance companies at this point?

I feel really sorry for everyone involved, including Diane Schuler. We may never really know what happened, but I do think that questioning the boy is necessary, regardless of his trauma.

"Diabetic Episodes" with altered mental status are due to LOW blood sugar, and that ONLY happens to folks on medication, such as insulin. And nothing, not even the most severe ketosis, gives you a false positive BAC, especially with undigested ethanol in the gut. Vitreous (the fluid in the eye) reflects the glucose at the time of death, and is routinely sampled. If the corpse still had globes, it was likely checked. The presence of THC in the blood does not correlate with the time of ingestion or level of impairment. Implications are possible, but haven't seen the numbers. Alcohol was def a factor, weed possible but not confirmed. Busted Vodka bottle supports BAC. Exhumed body will be useless for BAC, glucose, especially if enbalmed. And, at that time of day, if you stop at McD's, they do serve OJ. Occam rides again.

She had a THC plasma level of 113 ng/mL, which unequivocally indicates recent consumption. That being said, the alcohol was the principal impairing factor in this crash.

Plus an anonymous friend with all the bad news about her. Easy enough to find. There is plenty of time if she is guilty, slow down.

Drunks don't stop on the side of the road to call to say they are drunk. She was obviously disoriented. Believe me I have encountered a friend during a diabetic episode and I would have sworn he was drunk, except that I knew he didn't drink. Save your judgement on this one. Don't compound this tragedy with hasty, misinformed decisions. This woman does not seem to be the type to load up her kids and start drinking. Her brother certainly doesn't look like he would accept that type behavior from anyone with his kids.

Apparently this one did. Because a) she stopped on the side of the road to call her brother (but apparently did not say she was drunk and b) she was drunk as hell, as the BAC results prove with devastating certainty. She was disoriented because she was drunk and high off her ass.

Just because she never got drunk and loaded up the kids before doesn't mean she didn't do it this time. If it's true that she was having marital problems and was despondent, that much liquor + pot could have distorted her judgment enough and lowered her inhibitions enough to let just about anything happen.

Sorry man, facts are facts. Just because people don't want to face doesn't make them any less true.

Seth Wenig is the hardest working AP photographer. The SATC auditions yesterday, and now this.

Also, yes, i don't understand how a stroke= BAC of .19 + THC in her blood.

I can't imagine how a BAC like that and a bottle of vodka can be attributed to a stroke or diabetes...

And if the family knew she was drunk they should be punished.

But the lawsuit is BS. No amount of money will bring those people back. Shame on anyone who uses a death in the family as a chance to cash in.

I once ran over a pedestrian (his fault) and I had to pay for the repairs of my car and my legal fees... he was really poor and had no family or anything so I couldn't sue anybody...

Well, seeing how the driver of the car is dead I think the families of those 3 men are trying to *punish* someone by taking away what they have left. I don't think they are trying to *cash in*. They want whatever kind of justice they can get. Since they can't get their family members back and no one is going to go to jail for this, I'm sure this seems like the only way to enact any sort of punishment to them.

Thats BS and we both know it.

If there's guilt the courts will find it.

People just sue at the drop of a hat and gullible jury's encourage the practice.