This is undoubtedly a sad story.

While I agree the cyclist is wholly to blame and responsible for the death, I disagree with the path taken by the prosecution. This is negligent homicide or manslaughter, but applying the motor vehicle code to call it "vehicular" manslaughter isn't right.

By way of comparison, I've an acquaintance who was riding his bike home after dinner with some friends at a brewpub and he'd had a few. He rolled through a stop sign in a residential area while turning right (very close to home) and was stopped by a cop. The result? A night in the drunk tank and two citations: one for running a stop sign and the other for driving while intoxicated. Several grand in legal fees and fines later, his license was suspended for dui.

That kind of moronic state control is simply government run amok.