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- Jury begins deliberations in Kerry Kennedy drugged-driving trial with the activist facing up to a year in jailThe daughter of Robert F.
Kennedy has been on trial for four days in upstate New YorkShe is accused of knowingly driving while impaired by the prescription sleeping pill Ambien Zolpidem 10m No Prescription!, which she claims she mistook for her thyroid pillTo find Kennedy guilty, the jury must agree that Kennedy realized she was drugged, but decided to keep driving anywayA verdict is expected Friday, with the activist facing up to a year in jail By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter Published: 22:56 BST, 27 February 2014 | Updated: 01:13 BST, 28 February 2014









e-mail 75 View comments Deliberations have begun in the Kerry Kennedy drugged-driving trial, in which the activist daughter of Robert F.

Kennedy faces up to a year in jail if convicted.Kennedy is on trial in Westchester County, New York, for allegedly knowingly driving while impaired by the prescription sleeping pill Ambien.After deliberating for 40 minutes on Thursday afternoon, the jury broke for the day without a verdict.
Both sides in the misdemeanor case have conceded that Kennedy, 54, click through the following page took an Ambien on the morning of the accident - mistaking it for her morning thyroid pill - before she swerved into a tractor trailer in 2012. Deliberations have begun in the Kerry Kennedy drugged-driving trial, in which the activist daughter of Robert F.

Kennedy faces up to a year in jail if convicted Prosecutor Doreen Lloyd insisted during closing arguments that Kennedy must have felt drowsy or dizzy before the 2012 accident, and broke the law in failing to pull over.To find Kennedy guilty of misdemeanor impaired driving, the four-men, two-woman jury must agree that she realized she was drugged, and decided to keep driving anyway.

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‘Make no mistake about it… Kerry Kennedy ingested a pill of Ambien and shortly therefore she felt the onset systems associated with it of drowsiness and disorientation,' Lloyd told the jury.‘I submit to you she became aware of those symptoms she was feeling,' before the crash, the prosecutor argued, noting that as a 10-year occasional Canadian Ambien Online user, Kennedy was familiar with its effects. Kerry Kennedy, daughter of assassinated Senator Robert F.

Kennedy and the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, pushes a wheelchair with her mother mother Ethel Kennedy as she exits the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, New York, on Thursday ‘She knew.
She knew right away she had taken the wrong pill because she felt it.'Kennedy's lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt said Kennedy is not seeking an advantage because of her family. Earlier on Thursday the defense introduced a medical journal article in support of her testimony that she didn't realize she had accidentally taken a sleeping pill before getting behind the wheel.The August 2013 New England Journal of Medicine article said data showed that people taking the sleeping pill zolpidem ‘frequently do not recognize their impaired state.'Kennedy testified on Wednesday that she didn't remember anything that happened as she drove on a New York interstate one summer day in 2012 - swerving out of her lane, hitting a tractor-trailer and blowing a tire.And she says she never sensed that the drug was having an effect. On Thursday the defense introduced a medical journal article in support of Kennedy's testimony that she didn't realize she had accidentally taken a sleeping pill before getting behind the wheel Kennedy testified on Wednesday that she did not knowingly take a sleeping pill on the day her Lexus swerved into a tractor-trailer on a suburban New York highway in 2012 ‘If I realized I was impaired I would have pulled over,' Kennedy said on Wednesday at her trial in White Plains.The conclusion of the article on zolpidem was read from the witness stand on Thursday by Dr.

David Benjamin, a clinical pharmacologist who said he was involved in the testing of Cod Zolpidem Overnight as the manufacturer sought FDA approval in the 1990s.It would be even more difficult for someone who didn't know they had taken the drug ‘to understand what was going on,' he said.On cross examination, Benjamin said ‘a reasonable person' would check a prescription bottle before taking the drug.

But when prosecutor Doreen Lloyd asked him to say it was Kennedy's fault, the defense objected and the judge sustained the objection.Benjamin was the last witness to be called.The jury will return on Friday morning to continued mulling her fate.
She faces up to a year in jail if convicted.Kennedy, the ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, daughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and niece of President John F. Kennedy. Kerry Kennedy, daughter of assassinated Senator Robert F.

Kennedy and the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, pushes a wheelchair with her mother mother Ethel Kennedy as she exits the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, New York