The trial date as been set for Jim Leyritz, once baseball star now charged with DUI involuntary mansluaghter. While driving a friend home shortly after 3 a.m. ET on December 28, 2007, his red 2006 Ford Expedition hit the vehicle of 30-year-old Freida Veitch, a Fort Lauderdale police report stated. She was thrown from her dark green 2000 Mitsubishi Montero, knocked unconscious and pronounced dead at 4:08 a.m. Blood drawn from Leyritz three hours later showed he had 0.14 percent blood alcohol level, above the 0.08 benchmark in Florida. He also failed field sobriety tests, according to police. The funny thing about this case is that the victim, Freida Veitch, was also drunk, with the blood alchol content of .18%. So the question at hand is, is that enough evidence against the victim that leyritz could get off? If convicted he faces up to 15 years in prison.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/28/florida.leyritz.drunk/index.html
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ReplyDeleteWow thats kind of ironic that both drivers were drunk. In my opinion just because she was drunk as well shouldnt excuse the fact that he hit her. Your honestly rolling the dice everytime you drive drunk. When its all said and done he killed her. Interesting article.
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