The alleged drunk driver accused of killing the NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, in New Jersey, cleaned the day of the tears when a judge rejected his claim that the brothers’ drink may have contributed to his daths.
Sean Higgins, 44.
Duration at the audience on Tuesday, the Gaudreau family affected by the pain made a grimace when Higgins’s lawyer spent hours discussing that homicide and vehicle homicide charges should be reduced, or fired, if the brothers became the brothers where the hymns of the chickens were the ones that were made that Lore did that were made by the brothers.
“There is no credit on the argument that there was contributing negligence by cyclists,” the Judge of the Superior Court Michael Silvanio Angela, like a llorous eye hyggins cleaned his face.
Higgins, who the police claimed that medium -sized boxes in the previous period, had registered a blood alcohol reading of .087 following the accident of August 29, their defense lawyers argued.
Meanwhile, the brothers had blood alcohol levels of .129 or more than the legal limit of .08 of the Garden state.
“To say that their BAC may have contributed to the cause of death is a range to say the least,” said assistant prosecutor Michael Mestern at the hearing.
The prosecutors also pointed out that several other drivers had told the police that the brothers were traveling safely on the edge of the road before the accident.
“There are four witnesses who witnessed the defendant accelerating and illegally passing the bronco to the right when he hit the brothers,” Mestern argued. “The witnesses also saw the brothers set up a single file, with the traffic flow, in the fog line just before the defendant hit the defendant.”
Higgins lawyers, who pointed out that the Gaudreaus were bicycle without lights in the dark, insisted that they were not trying to blame or contribute to family pain.
“[We] They are not blaming the two cyclists for the incident. That would be ridiculous. That would be bad, “said lawyer Matthew Portella when Gaudreaus parents and sisters made a grimace in the courtroom.
Instead, Portella argued that the Grand Jury was not given all the facts before he approved positions that alleged that he was intentionally reckless before the accident and fled the scene later.
The double tragedy that involved the brothers was the national headlines last year after it emerged, the duo had been killed on the eve of their sister’s wedding.
Doing even more tragic things, their two wives have given birth to children.
Johnny’s widow, Meredith, gave birth to her third son on April 1, while Matthew’s widow, Madeline, had her baby at the end of last year.
His sister’s wedding, meanwhile, has been postponed until this summer.
Higgins, meanwhile, rejected a plea or 35 -year -old sacrifice.
Now faces a maximum of 70 years in prison if it is declared guilty for all aspects.
With publication cables