One crash, two cases
A family’s vehicle was violently rear-ended by a company truck driven by an employee of a construction company. One of their children was killed. Another suffered catastrophic injuries.
Then the case turned into something almost no personal injury lawyer ever has to handle. The State charged the driver of the family’s own vehicle with felony manslaughter, and made a final pre-trial offer of seventeen years in prison.
A unanimous acquittal, then the civil case
As part of the work-up of the civil case, Vuk tried the criminal case and obtained a unanimous acquittal for the driver of the family’s vehicle.
The civil case then resolved. The defendants insisted the amount they paid be kept secret.
What the evidence showed
- A company truck driven by a construction company employee violently rear-ended the family’s vehicle.
- One child was killed; another suffered catastrophic injuries.
- The State charged the driver of the family’s vehicle with felony manslaughter.
- The State’s final pre-trial offer was 17 years imprisonment.
- The criminal jury returned a unanimous acquittal.
- The defendants insisted the amount they paid be kept secret.
The criminal case
Very few injury lawyers would take on a companion criminal trial at all. The case is whatever it has to be to get the family a just result.
More from the record
Every case is different. Prior results depend on the facts of the individual case and do not guarantee a similar outcome.