He described it as driving with an assumption that everbody's a hired hitman trying to get you. Still, Hood pointed out that motorcycle safety is a perennial problem. The Jugheads Motorcycle Club didn't respond to a request for comment from GBH News. Libertine said the group would have a longer statement at a later date. "The Massachusetts Motorcycle Association is resovled to continue our mission of awareness, safety eduction and legislation for motorcyclists of Massachusetts," he said. Rocco Libertine, chairman of the Massachusetts Motorcycle Association, was a little more reserved. "Seven people died and a bunch more got injured and nobody's going to jail for it." Still, Hood said it's difficult to understand how the jury came to its decision. "That said, could still face the music in civil litigation because the standard of proof, the burden of proof, is far lower in a civil case than the very high proof beyond a reasonable doubt threshold in a criminal prosecution," he said. He pointed out that the jury could not give a compromise verdict - acquit on the top counts but convict on the lower counts - since the judge had dismissed the counts involving substance use. The proesecution had argued that Zhukovskyy had taken illegal substances the day of the crash, as Zhukovskyy had admitted to police that he had taken heroin and cocaine that same morning, but judge dismissed eight charges related to his alleged impairment.ĭaniel Medwed, a legal analyst for GBH News, said he wasn't entirely surprised by the verdict. The general opinion seems to be that they should have got him at least on some kind of negligent homicide." "There's a lot of disgust with the general outcome," he said. While he hadn't personally taken a close look at the verdict himself, he described the response he's seen from other motorcycle riders as dismayed. Thomas Hood is president of the Riders Motorcycle Club of Boston, the largest and oldest gay men's motorcycle club in New England. The case led to a shake-up at the RMV, an investigation into Zhukovskyy's employer by Attorney General Maura Healey and the discovery of thousands of other residents whose driver's licenses should have been suspended for out-of-state violations.īut for members of the local motorcycle community, the verdict hit close to home. Connecticut officials had notified the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles that Zhukovskyy had refused an alcohol test during a traffic stop.
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The high-profile case sent waves through Northeast with the revelation that Zhukovskyy's license should have been suspended weeks before the crash. We didn't get all the rulings we wanted but we litigated hard and we respect the court's decisions, we respect the jury's decisions," he said.
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Healey Opens Investigation Into Company That Employed Driver In New Hampshire Crash That Killed 7 Reeves had approached him to say, if the jury comes back guilty, are they going to take him right away,” said Rick Escobar.Truck driver acquitted in deaths of 7 motorcyclists in 2019 Reeves had asked one of the bailiffs, because of of the bailiffs told me that Mrs. On the other side, the attorneys for Curtis Reeves say his wife was prepared for the worst and even asked a bailiff what might happen. I don’t think she necessarily expected one verdict or the other because she understood that this could happen,” said Grimaldi. “I think she realized she realized that closure was coming one way or the other. He says Oulson was very emotional Friday night and is still too upset to talk about it. Grimaldi has represented Nicole Oulson as her attorney for the past eight years.
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Her husband was shot and killed in a Wesley Chapel movie theater in 2014 by Reeves. (WFLA) – Nicole Oulson, the wife of Chad Oulson left the courthouse in Dade City in tears on Friday night when a Pasco County jury found Curtis Reeves not guilty of his murder.
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