/ Source: TODAY contributor
Mom ‘thankful’ for no jail in son’s jaywalking death
Raquel Nelson will not be going to jail — at least not anytime soon.The single mother from Marietta, Ga., who potentially faced more prison time for jaywalking than the man convicted for the hit-and-run accident that killed her 4-year-old son, was sentenced to 40 hours of community service and 12 months probation in Cobb County State Court, but then also given the option of a new trial in an unu