Drunk Republican convicted of six counts of gross vehicular manslaughter
Harry Hope
Vellanoweth's case held us intensely because of Vellanoweth himself.
As long as he stuck to his flimsy story of denial and cowardice, we
couldn't look away.
On the day of the crash, Vellanoweth berated paramedics who tried to
help him, browbeat police officers as if they were servants.
He sputtered like a bully as his blood was forcibly taken.
At trial, his defense was a parade of harebrained testimony
transparently designed to confuse the jury.
He wasn't really drunk.
A woman now dead may have spiked his drink.
He unwittingly consumed the equivalent of several drinks in one glass.
The crash was his victim's fault.
He was driving defensively, even though evidence clocked him at
70-plus and his victims at 14 mph.
From The Sacramento Bee, 7/13/08:
http://www.sacbee.com/breton/story/1078987.html
Vellanoweth also guilty of cowardice
By Marcos Bretón
It is said people can't turn away from a car wreck, that we are
fascinated by roadside carnage, mangled fenders, fractured dreams.
That was the case in the drunken-driving trial of Roberto Vellanoweth
that played out in a Sacramento courtroom in recent weeks.
Vellanoweth is the well-heeled mover in Latino and Republican circles
whose life of affluence mortally collided with a car full of young
people on March 26, 2007.
On Thursday, he was convicted on six counts of gross vehicular
manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.
Once an appointee to state boards by two California governors,
including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vellanoweth could face 17 years in
prison for killing three young women and a baby boy with his Jeep
Cherokee.
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Harry
Max Power
2008 or 2009?
Failing that: Macau, Sydney or Liverpool?
I am assuming it is possible to bet on anything that has a predictable
numerical outcome, that can be statistically "handicapped".