'Destroyed' family split on sentence for DWI crash that killed 3 relatives - NJ.com
MORRISTOWN — As emotions flared in a Morristown courtroom, a 38-year-old Jersey City man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in state prison for driving while intoxicated in a crash that killed three relatives in Jefferson in August 2013. Luis E.... Superior Court Judge James DeMarzo in Morristown announced the sentence following an often tearful hearing that he said showed how "a family has been destroyed" due to Torres' "catastrophic loss of judgment. Other family members — including Torres' wife, Aivet — spoke of what a responsible man he is and asked for the 10-year sentence requested by his attorney. Torres was driving back to Jersey City at a high speed in a 2002 Ford Explorer overloaded with eight passengers when the SUV flipped on Route 15 in Jefferson, killing Torres' mother-in-law, Lucila Colon, 62. his stepdaughter, Tevia Booth, 11 and... Three tests showed that Torres had a blood-alcohol level far above the legal limit of. 08 percent, with one test registering at. 248 percent. The SUV was overloaded, with children sitting on laps without seat belts, because some people had left the party early and Torres wound up driving some who had arrived in a different car. Source: www.nj.com
