A Delaware Superior Court judge ruled this morning that Paramedic Michelle Smith was acting as a firefighter when she was killed by a driver while tending to an injured man on the side of a highway late last year, according to The News Journal.
The ruling allowed paraplegic Joseph Taye -- who had been using a stick to work the vehicle's pedals -- to be found guilty of first-degree murder for his role in the Dec. 20, 2008 incident on U.S.
