Felony charge sought for driver in vehicular homicide case

STRUTHERS — A preliminary hearing in a vehicular homicide case was postponed today, and the victim’s family hopes a new prosecutor will file a felony rather than a misdemeanor charge in the matter.

Whitney Yaeger, 20, of Springfield Township is still charged with the misdemeanor that was filed by Struthers Prosecutor Carol Clemente Wagner after a June 17 accident that killed Dave Muslovski, 55, of Unity Road in the township.

The new date for Yaeger’s preliminary hearing is 1 p.m. March 16.

Clemente Wagner has recused herself from the case. Muslovski family members said it made them uncomfortable Clemente Wagner was previously represented by Yaeger’s attorney, John Yuhasz, They believe Clemente Wagner had a conflict of interest.

Juhasz represented her in a 2009 case in which Struthers Mayor Terry Stocker fought her effort to rescind her resignation as the city’s law director.

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