Kerry Kennedy's Westchester drugged-driving trial gets underway

[hrmjustin]

AP JIM FITZGERALD
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Jurors will hear Monday about Kerry Kennedy's morning routine and daily medications as they consider whether she's guilty of drugged driving.

The case against Kennedy, daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy and ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, goes to trial Monday morning in suburban White Plains.

In 2012, Kennedy was arrested after her car hit a tractor-trailer on an interstate highway near her home outside New York City. She drove to the next exit, where she failed a sobriety test, police said. Blood tests revealed a small amount of the sleeping drug zolpidem. Kennedy claims she accidentally took a sleeping pill instead of her daily thyroid medication.

Prosecutors said it's up to the jury to decide whether the drug was taken accidentally. And even if it was, they said, Kennedy broke the law if she kept driving after feeling the drug's effects.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/northern_suburbs&id=9442818

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Haven't been following, but it's hard to see how this is a "jury trial".

Perhaps some businesses near the WP courthouse will be happy for a while but.....

[hrmjustin]

2. She refused a plea deal so now it goes to a jury trial.

She claims she took a sleeping pill and pleading guilty would hurt her work on different issues.