A nurse charged with six counts of homicide after her Mercedes-Benz slammed into site visitors at a busy Windsor Hills intersection final month accelerated to 130 mph simply earlier than the crash, in accordance with new court docket paperwork filed Friday.

The movement, filed by the Los Angeles County district lawyer’s workplace in response to claims by the nurse’s attorneys that she had misplaced consciousness earlier than the collision, states that Nicole Linton “was aware and deliberate in her driving.”

Authorities initially estimated Linton’s automotive was touring 90 mph when it crashed into a number of autos on the intersection of La Brea and Slauson avenues shortly after 1:30 p.m. Aug. 4.

“Additional evaluation reveals that her pace at affect was in reality 130 mph and that she floored the gasoline pedal for at the least the 5 seconds main into the crash, going from 122 mph to 130 mph,” Friday’s court docket submitting stated.

Prosecutors stated evaluation of the Mercedes’ recorded knowledge and surveillance video signifies that Linton had “full management over steering, sustaining the lean of the steering wheel to maintain her automotive touring immediately towards the crowded intersection.”

“This NASCAR-worthy efficiency flies within the face of the notion that she was unconscious or incapacitated,” in accordance with the submitting.

Linton, 37, is charged with six counts of homicide and 5 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. One of many victims was Asherey Ryan, who was 8½ months pregnant. Prosecutors charged Linton with homicide within the demise of Ryan’s fetus.

The crash additionally killed Ryan’s almost 1-year-old youngster, Alonzo Quintero, and her boyfriend, Reynold Lester, who have been within the automotive along with her.

Additionally killed have been Nathesia Lewis, 43, and her buddy Lynette Noble, 38.

Linton has been held in jail for the reason that crash, with prosecutors alleging she is a flight danger and a hazard to the neighborhood.

Her protection attorneys stated in a earlier submitting that Linton‘s psychological well being was deteriorating earlier than the crash.

“She has no recollection of the occasions that led to her collision,” Dr. William Winter wrote on Aug. 6. Winter handled Linton on the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Heart.

“The subsequent factor she recalled was mendacity on the pavement and seeing that her automotive was on fireplace,” he wrote.

The extent of Linton’s accidents from the crash weren’t included within the physician’s report, however Winter talked about “fractures” and Linton’s attorneys stated she is utilizing a wheelchair to maneuver round jail.

Winter wrote that Linton has bipolar dysfunction and suffered an “obvious lapse of consciousness” on the time of the crash, in accordance with her closely redacted medical data.

Linton’s household grew to become conscious of her psychological well being points in Could 2018 when she was a nursing scholar on the College of Texas in Houston, her attorneys wrote. Her sister Camille Linton stated in a letter to the court docket that Nicole Linton‘s research to be a nurse anesthetist induced her first psychological well being breakdown.

“The stress was an excessive amount of for her and it ‘broke’ her,” Camille Linton wrote. “Thus starting the journey of Nicole’s 4-year wrestle with psychological sickness.”

Linton ran out of her residence in Could 2018 throughout a panic assault, and when police approached her, she jumped on a police automotive and was arrested for disorderly conduct, her attorneys wrote.

Linton known as her household from the police station and was involved concerning the well-being of her pet turtle, in accordance with her attorneys.

A number of days after that arrest, Linton informed her household that she believed she was possessed by her useless grandmother.

The subsequent day, at Ben Taub psychiatric hospital, Linton required stitches on her brow after she banged her head right into a glass partition whereas ranting concerning the police and the Supreme Court docket, the attorneys wrote. She sang Bob Marley songs because the medical workers handled her wound, the data say.

It was at Ben Taub that she was identified with bipolar dysfunction and prescribed psychiatric remedy, the protection movement says.

“Within the days and hours main as much as the occasions of August 4, Nicole’s habits grew to become more and more horrifying,” her attorneys wrote.

Linton saved telling one in all her sisters that her co-workers on the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Heart have been “appearing bizarre,” her attorneys stated. The day of the crash, Linton drove residence from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister fully bare, in accordance with the court docket papers.

She then went again to work, and known as her sister at 1:24 p.m. saying she was leaving work once more, simply minutes earlier than the crash.

“She informed her sister that she was flying out to fulfill her in Houston the subsequent day so she might do her niece’s hair. She additionally stated that she could be getting married and that her sister ought to meet her on the altar,” the attorneys wrote.

In Friday’s submitting, which opposed Linton’s bid for pretrial launch or to have bail granted, prosecutors disputed protection attorneys’ assertions about Linton’s driving and medical histories.

Prosecutors stated they obtained data detailing three prior rushing violations and two crashes attributable to Linton “exhibiting an ongoing disregard for the protection of others on the highway.”

“In an try to color what we now know was a horrific aware act as an accident, the protection has conflated the potential of defendant struggling a psychological well being episode previous to the crash with the now defunct notion of a lack of consciousness on the time of the crash,” prosecutors stated.

Up to now, no documentation of a medical prognosis has been filed with the court docket, in accordance with prosecutors. Information reference prior diagnoses of bipolar dysfunction however don’t embrace any situations during which Linton suffered a lack of consciousness by seizure, epilepsy, syncope or different situations, in accordance with the submitting.

The out there medical data paint an image of violent and aggressive habits throughout previous psychological well being episodes, and present that as early as Could 2019, Linton “admitted that she refused to take her prescribed drugs,” the prosecutors alleged.

Linton’s statements to officers after the crash contradict her declare that she couldn’t bear in mind the occasions that led as much as it, prosecutors alleged.

“[Linton’s] perception into the circumstances of the crash is extremely correct and in step with the proof of her driving conduct,” in accordance with the submitting.

Prosecutors stated she shared that she’d been confused by work and by issues with one in all her sisters, and that she hadn’t slept for 4 days earlier than the crash.

“Defendant opined that the reason for her collision was her fatigue,” in accordance with the submitting. “In jail calls along with her sister … days after, [Linton] acknowledged that she mustn’t have gone to work on the day of the crash, stating, ‘5 individuals are useless due to me.’”

Linton’s attorneys couldn’t be reached for remark Friday night time.