Pretrial option being appealed by bus driver

BENTON, TENNESSEE - The attorney for a former Georgia bus driver facing criminal charges from a bus-train collision that killed three students says he will appeal a decision that the driver must stand trial. <br> <br> An assistant district attorney in Polk County, Tennessee, turned down Rhonda Cloer&#39;s request yesterday to avoid trial. Cloer had requested a pretrial diversion program. <br> <br> Assistant District Attorney Sandra Donaghy said Cloer ``shows no remorse in her statements and has not accepted any responsibility for her conduct.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Cloer&#39;s Murray County, Georgia, school bus collided with a CSX train in Polk County as it crossed railroad tracks near the Georgia-Tennessee state line. Three students were killed. <br> <br> Cloer faces 19 criminal charges, including vehicular homicide, from the March 2000 collision. <br> <br> Cloer also is charged with reckless aggravated assault and failing to stop a school bus at a railroad crossing. <br> <br> Cloer&#39;s attorney - Conrad Finnell - says the decision will be appealed to District Attorney Jerry Estes and then to the courts.

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