Leroy N. Soetoro
2012-06-10 20:22:34 UTC
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Aaron Deveau, 18, was the first driver to be charged and convicted of
motor vehicle homicide by texting under Massachusetts law.
Prosecutors said Deveau, who pleaded not guilty, was texting on Feb. 20,
2011, when his vehicle swerved across the center line of a Haverhill
street and crashed head on into Donald Bowley's truck, killing the 55-
year-old father of three.
"My brother received such severe head trauma that ... there was no hope
for him," the victim's sister Donna Burleigh testified in Haverhill
District Court.
Deveau was charged with motor vehicle homicide and negligent operation of
a motor vehicle, using a mobile phone while operating a motor vehicle,
reading or sending an electronic message, a marked lanes violation, and
two counts of negligent operation and injury from mobile phone use.
Deveau's lawyer argued that there was no evidence the crash caused
Bowley's death. When Deveau testified Tuesday he said he was distracted by
the amount of homework he had to do and was not sending or reading a text
message in the moments before the crash. He said he sent his last text
message while parked in the parking lot of the grocery store where he
worked. According to Deveau's testimony, his phone remained in the
passenger's seat until after the crash, when he called his parents.
But prosecutors argued that Deveau was not paying attention when the
vehicles collided. Phone records indicated he sent a text message at 2:34
p.m. and received a response at 2:35 p.m. Police said the crash occurred
at 2:36 p.m.
"The defendant sent and received 193 texts on Feb 20, 2011," a prosecutor
told the court.
In a videotaped statement recorded after the crash, Deveau, then 17, had a
question for police: "If anything happens to them, if one passes away,
what would happen to me?"
Texting while driving is a crime in Washington, D.C., and 38 states,
including Massachusetts. Deveau faces up to four years in prison.
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Aaron Deveau, 18, was the first driver to be charged and convicted of
motor vehicle homicide by texting under Massachusetts law.
Prosecutors said Deveau, who pleaded not guilty, was texting on Feb. 20,
2011, when his vehicle swerved across the center line of a Haverhill
street and crashed head on into Donald Bowley's truck, killing the 55-
year-old father of three.
"My brother received such severe head trauma that ... there was no hope
for him," the victim's sister Donna Burleigh testified in Haverhill
District Court.
Deveau was charged with motor vehicle homicide and negligent operation of
a motor vehicle, using a mobile phone while operating a motor vehicle,
reading or sending an electronic message, a marked lanes violation, and
two counts of negligent operation and injury from mobile phone use.
Deveau's lawyer argued that there was no evidence the crash caused
Bowley's death. When Deveau testified Tuesday he said he was distracted by
the amount of homework he had to do and was not sending or reading a text
message in the moments before the crash. He said he sent his last text
message while parked in the parking lot of the grocery store where he
worked. According to Deveau's testimony, his phone remained in the
passenger's seat until after the crash, when he called his parents.
But prosecutors argued that Deveau was not paying attention when the
vehicles collided. Phone records indicated he sent a text message at 2:34
p.m. and received a response at 2:35 p.m. Police said the crash occurred
at 2:36 p.m.
"The defendant sent and received 193 texts on Feb 20, 2011," a prosecutor
told the court.
In a videotaped statement recorded after the crash, Deveau, then 17, had a
question for police: "If anything happens to them, if one passes away,
what would happen to me?"
Texting while driving is a crime in Washington, D.C., and 38 states,
including Massachusetts. Deveau faces up to four years in prison.
--
Obama's black racist USAG appointee.
Eric Holder, racist black United States Attorney General drops voter
intimidation charges against the Black Panthers, "You are about to be
ruled by the black man, cracker!"
Eric Holder, prejudiced black United States Attorney General settles the
hate crime debate, "Whites Not Protected by Hate Crime Laws."
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New
York's million dollar tax evasion.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder, committed treason by knowingly and
deliberately arming enemies of the United States of America through
Operation Fast and Furious. Complicit in the murder of Federal employees
during the execution of their duties.
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