A woman accused of intentionally plowing a car into a crowd of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk had marijuana in her system at the time, but prosecutors said Wednesday it's unlikely she'll be charged with driving under the influence.
Tests showed that Lakeisha Nicole Holloway had more than the Nevada legal limit of pot and its metabolic byproducts in her blood when she was arrested shortly after the Dec. 20 crash, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said.
However, Wolfson and prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo said the test results didn't change the initial charges of murder, child endangerment and felony hit-and-run pending against Holloway.
Holloway's court-appointed defense attorneys, Joseph Abood and Scott Coffee, said the don't prove Holloway's driving was affected.
Coffee said that while the level of metabolite in Holloway's system was above state limits, it was below a 50 nanograms-per-milliliter limit set by the federal Department of Transportation for pilots, overland truckers and other interstate drivers.
Holloway remains jailed on suicide watch pending a Jan. 20 court date.