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Guilty plea in fatal boating accident
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By Robert Barron
CNHI News Service –>
HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) _ A 24-year-old man who swam away from the scene of a boat crash that killed a passenger on an Adirondack lake last summer pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter.
Keir Weimer admitted to second-degree vehicular manslaughter in Herkimer County Court just 30 minutes before jury selection was scheduled to begin at his trial.
Weimer, of Pompey, said he was piloting the boat that crashed into Alger Island State Campground on Fourth Lake in Old Forge in July 2006, killing 20-year-old Tiffany Heitkamp of Syracuse. The boat was going so fast it came to rest 150 inland from the shore. Four other passengers were hurt in the wreck.
Under the plea agreement, Weimer will receive two to six years in state prison. He was scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 26.
Weimer had also faced a charge of second-degree manslaughter, which would have carried a maximum sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison if he was found guilty after trial.
“It was absolutely not an accident,” said District Attorney John Crandall. “It was a crime pure and simple.”
State police said Weimer had a blood alcohol level of 0.10, higher than the state limit of 0.08.
He was originally charged with second-degree manslaughter, second-degree vehicular manslaughter, two counts of second-degree vehicular assault, two counts of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and reckless operation of a vessel. He had previously pleaded innocent.
Guilty plea in fatal boating accident
Kenya minister speaks about ministry
A minister from Kenya was in Enid talking about his ministry.
By Robert Barron
CNHI News Service –>HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) _ A 24-year-old man who swam away from the scene of a boat crash that killed a passenger on an Adirondack lake last summer pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter.
Keir Weimer admitted to second-degree vehicular manslaughter in Herkimer County Court just 30 minutes before jury selection was scheduled to begin at his trial.
Weimer, of Pompey, said he was piloting the boat that crashed into Alger Island State Campground on Fourth Lake in Old Forge in July 2006, killing 20-year-old Tiffany Heitkamp of Syracuse. The boat was going so fast it came to rest 150 inland from the shore. Four other passengers were hurt in the wreck.
Under the plea agreement, Weimer will receive two to six years in state prison. He was scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 26.
Weimer had also faced a charge of second-degree manslaughter, which would have carried a maximum sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison if he was found guilty after trial.
“It was absolutely not an accident,” said District Attorney John Crandall. “It was a crime pure and simple.”
State police said Weimer had a blood alcohol level of 0.10, higher than the state limit of 0.08.
He was originally charged with second-degree manslaughter, second-degree vehicular manslaughter, two counts of second-degree vehicular assault, two counts of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and reckless operation of a vessel. He had previously pleaded innocent.