Man convicted in fatal crash while high on computer cleaner
Source: Associated Press
Updated 3:23 pm, Thursday, September 14, 2017
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of being high on cleaning chemicals from an aerosol can when he crashed his pickup truck into a New Jersey farmers market, killing a woman, has been convicted of criminal charges.
James Woetzel was convicted of charges including aggravated manslaughter on Thursday in the death of 58-year-old Donna Wine in Hawthorne in August 2014.
Defense attorneys had argued investigators obtained a blood sample without getting Woetzel's consent. But the judge ruled the sample was taken after Woetzel knowingly and voluntarily provided his consent.
The sample showed he was high from diflouroethane, a chemical found in computer cleaner.
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