 Nesler made headlines in 1993 when she killed, on April 2, Daniel Mark Driver, who had been accused of child molestation after his abuse of five boys (including her then-six-year-old son, William), in the courtroom of the Jamestown Justice Court.Driver had previous convictions for child molestation.According to Jon Thurber of the "Los Angeles Times", the finding that Nesler, when she killed Driver, had methamphetamines significantly influencing her body caused the "sympathetic portrait" of herself portrayed by her defense team to "erode".