For the record

2009-02-05 / Community

An article about the trial of Diana Shakhov had an error in the edition of Jan. 22. The first case ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked 9-3 for an acquittal.

Shakhov was driving a car that rearended another vehicle on June 2, 2003 on Thousand Oaks Boulevard.

In the crash, a 17-year-old Westlake High School student, Nicole Johnson, was killed by blunt force trauma to the brain. Shakhov had for two years been taking a muscle relaxant, Soma. Her defense attorney, Howard Price, contends that Shakhov had developed a tolerance for the drug with usage.

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