A judge did not look kindly on a 17-year-old teen's Facebook photo labeled "drunk in Florida," and taken a month after she was charged in a fatal drunk driving accident that claimed the life of her boyfriend.
If you are facing Massachusetts OUI charges or other criminal offense, a Boston OUI lawyer should tell you to avoid posting incriminating information on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Such posts are public information and attorneys for both sides are increasingly using social networking sites in building cases. Do yourself and your Boston defense attorney a favor and don't damage your case by your online behavior.
As published nationwide in the American Bar Association Journal, a publication for lawyers, and reported in the Buffalo News, the teenager was sentenced last week to six months in the county jail and five year's of probation.
The teenager pleaded guilty in November to criminally negligent homicide and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated for the May 30 fatal crash. News outlets found the Facebook photo of her partying in Florida, which did not sit well with the judge.
"I'm troubled by your conduct since the crash," County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III was quoted as saying in the Buffalo News, "and that's the reason for the jail sentence."
The judge also refused to grant her juvenile offender status. In the wake of the photo, there were laughs from the audience when the woman's defense attorney tried to tell the court that his client was remorseful.
She had a blood alcohol level of .13 when she crashed her car into a brick pillar outside a golf course at about 2:30 a.m. Her boyfriend and passenger was killed.
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