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Jury deliberations against a truck driver charged with killing seven motorcyclists in a New Hampshire trial began Tuesday in New Hampshire, contradicting each other.
Volodymyr Zhukovsky, 26, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, has been charged with manslaughter, manslaughter, and recklessness in connection with the June 21, 2019 crash that killed seven members of a Marine Corps motorcycle club. accused of misconduct.
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Prosecutors allege that Zhukovsky, who had been taking heroin, fentanyl and cocaine that day, turned back and forth multiple times before the head-on collision and told police he was responsible. A judge dismissed eight charges related to whether he was disabled, and his attorneys blamed lead biker Albert “Woody” Mazza, who was one of the dead.
“He was drunk. is innocent.”
“There is no question that this accident was a tragedy,” Duguay said. “But I’m not here to determine if this was a tragedy.”
Duguay accused prosecutors of ignoring the discrepancy between their theory that Zhukovsky crossed oncoming traffic and their own accident reconstruction unit. Meanwhile, an expert hired by the defense testified that the accident occurred on the center line of the road and that Mazza’s motorcycle was heading in that direction, even though the truck was in the middle of the lane.
“From the beginning of this investigation, the state was determined about what had happened. The evidence was discarded.
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“These witnesses were all over what they remembered and what they claimed to have seen,” he said.
In particular, Duguay suggested that members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club “hide” their accounts to protect Mazza and the club. Prosecutor Scott Chase acknowledged some discrepancies, but asked the jury to remember the circumstances.
“People covered the dead, tried to save the barely alive, comforted the dying. This wasn’t story time,” he said. They were talking about the most unimaginable chaos, trauma, death and carnage that we could even imagine years later.They were talking about hell opening.”
Witnesses consistently described the truck swaying back and forth before the crash, he claimed.
“That’s what stopped him. It’s not like he made a responsible decision to start paying attention or doing the right thing,” he said. “The only thing that stopped him was the embankment after he tore up a group of motorcycles.”
Chase called the attempt to accuse Mazza a “fantastic story” and a “frivolous distraction,” and Zhukovsky, who did not testify at trial, told investigators, “Obviously, I caused the crash.” He reminded the jury that he had caused
“He was clear from the beginning that he caused this crash,” Chase said. “That’s what he said because it happened.”
The deceased motorcyclists were from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and ranged in age from 42 to 62. They were part of a large group that had just left Randolph’s US Route 2 motel.
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Maza of Lee, New Hampshire, was killed. Couple Edward and Joan Coar from Lakeville, Massachusetts. Michael Ferrazzi of Contooke, New Hampshire. Desma Oakes from Concord, New Hampshire. Daniel Pereira of Riverside, Rhode Island. Aaron Perry of Farmington, New Hampshire.