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Gabrielle Jane Nestande of Powerful OC GOP Family Indicted on Serious Felonies in Texas
By Matt Coker Thu., Oct. 25 2012 at 8:58 AM
Gabrielle Jane Nestande has been indicted on more serious felonies related to a hit-and-run that could send the
daughter of a powerful Newport Beach Republican to a Texas prison for 20 years.
The 25-year-old former Austin Capitol staffer and Gov. Rick Perry campaign worker, who had faced a single count of failing to stop and render aid to a pedestrian, is now fighting manslaughter and intoxication manslaughter charges.
And this bombshell just dropped, as reported by the Austin Statesman: The prosecution will rely at trial on the testimony of Francesca Nestande, a University of Southern California and another child of Bruce Nestande, a former Orange County supervisor and state assemblyman. Francesca's testimony "is important and necessary in that she can testify to incriminating statements made by the defendant in the hours following the commission of the crime," the prosecution writes in court papers reviewed by the Statesman.
Prosecutors have also seized evidence from two Austin area bars the night before May 27, 2011, when
30-year-old nanny Courtney Paige Griffin was mowed down near her suburban home. Nestande was arrested hours later after an anonymous 9-1-1 caller spotted her black BMW 3 Series sedan with a broken windshield parked in a driveway a half-mile from where Griffin's body was found.
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Nestande Gets Probation For Hit And Run Conviction
Updated: Friday, February 22 2013, 07:54 PM CST
Gabrielle Nestande was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday afternoon for the 2011 hit and run death of Courtney Griffin, but the jury recommended the prison sentence be suspended and serve
10 years of probation instead. She also received a $10,000 fine.
Nestande, 25, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide Thursday for Griffin's death. Nestande hit and killed Griffin as Griffin was walking on Exposition Boulevard. Nestande left the scene of the crash.
During the closing arguments for the sentencing phase Assistant District Attorney Mary Farrington told the jury probation for Nestande is not appropriate. She warned the jury that
probation would be lax if Nestande serves it in her home state of California. Then Farrington told the jury that prison time for Nestande would provide both a punishment and a deterrent for others.
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