WHAT A HEEL: DWI Prison Sentence For “Drunk While In FL” Status Post
Ashley M. Sullivan, 17, was sentenced to six months in Niagara County Jail, one year of home confinement with electronic monitoring and five years' probation for criminally negligent homicide and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. Though the judge had inclined towards leniency based on Sullivan’s “extreme youth” his sentence was based, in part, on a photo she posted on Facebook just one month after the crash with the caption: "Drunk in Florida."
Driving more than 55 mph in a 30-mph zone, she smashed her car into a brick pillar in the wee hours of May 30, 2009, killing her boyfriend, Alex Rozicki, 20. Her blood alcohol content was measured at 0.13 percent - the legal standard for intoxication in NY is 0.08 percent, reports The Buffalo News:
"I'm troubled by your conduct since the crash," County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III told Sullivan, "and that's the reason for the jail sentence."
Murphy also refused to grant Sullivan youthful offender status for the same reason. …
When defense attorney Glenn Murray said in court, "This young woman is remorseful," someone laughed among a crowd of more than two dozen of the victim's friends and relatives, drawing a reprimand from the judge.
The judge also forbade Sullivan to drink for the next five years, reminding her that at age 17 “you’re not old enough to drink.”
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