Hit And Run Driver Who Killed Hasidic Couple And Their Baby Now Could Face Life In Prison

Julio Acevedo, the driver already charged with leaving the scene of a horrific Brooklyn traffic accident that killed a pregnant hasidic woman and her husband, was charged again today, this time with three counts of second-degree manslaughter – one count for each of the dead parents and one count for the death of their premature child.

Julio Acevedo

Hit And Run Driver Who Killed Hasidic Couple And Their Baby Now Could Face Life In Prison
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Julio Acevedo, the driver already charged with leaving the scene of a horrific Brooklyn traffic accident that killed a pregnant hasidic woman and her husband, was charged again today, this time with three counts of second-degree manslaughter – one count for each of the dead parents and one count for the death of their premature child.

According to a report by the Associated Press,  Acevedo now faces life in prison if he is convicted.

“While we knew it was a snowy evening and the defendant was speeding, our investigation has developed additional information concerning the nature of Mr. Acevedo’s conduct leading up to the fatal crash,” Brooklyn District Attorney Hynes reportedly said in a prepared statement.

He cited what he said was evidence that Acevedo was traveling almost 70 miles per hour in a borrowed BMW, more than twice the posted speed limit, when he hit the livery taxi carrying Nachman and Raizy Glauber. The young couple were on their way to a hospital because Raizy Glauber felt ill and thought she may be about to enter premature labor with her first child.

However, the initial police investigation showed Acevedo was traveling at 60 mph when he struck the Glauber’s livery cab.

Hynes’ prosecutors claim firefighters and civilians who witnessed Acevedo driving just before the accident said Acevedo was driving recklessly, accelerating as he passed their vehicles and rounded a curve moments before impact.

People who stopped to help the victims told investigators that Acevedo assured them he wasn’t hurt. Prosecutors allege that he slipped away on foot, fully aware of the carnage.

The Glaubers were both 21-years-old, and both passed away the day of the accident. Their son was delivered by emergency Cesarean section. He did not survive and passed away a after his parents.

Defense attorney Kathleen Julian said her client would continue to fight the charges.

“The case should be decided on the facts and not on public outcry,” she reportedly said.

New York’s haredi community – especially the Glauber’s politically powerful Satmar hasidic sect – lobbied hard to have Acevedo’s charges upped.

Hynes is facing a tough reelection bid this fall.

Acevedo is described by his family as a dedicated family man who quit his job to become a stay-at-home father.

Acevedo is being held without bail.

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Comments

[Abracadabra]

He should not have left the scene of the crash. If he did so in a panic, he should have turned himself in to police the moment he got over his initial panic (which doesn't last more than a few hours). After that he was a fugitive of the law, knowing that 2 adults including a pregnant woman were rushed off to the hospital in this crash. He left the scene, later returned anonymously according to witnesses, and then left the scene again. He needed to take responsibility for his actions. This is clearly a man who has difficulty doing so.

Public outcry and public pressure seems to be warranted in this case.

People have driven recklessly without killing anyone, and sometimes a reckless driver will “only” kill themselves. He had the misfortune of killing 2 adults and a newborn with his reckless driving.

He could have come forward like a man and taken responsibility for his part in this. Instead he ran like a criminal, and he is now being treated like one.

If the roles were reversed the Hispanic lobbying groups would demand the same, and rightly so.

[Isa]

He ran away most probably because he was drunk. Run away get sober then at least one cannot get charged with DWI

Long time ago one of the Kennedys [Ted?] did this and got off

[zibble]

Not just this horrific incident but other actions by Acevedo suggests that locking him up forever would be the best thing for society.

[Abracadabra]

Acevedo is described by his family as a dedicated family man who quit his job to become a stay-at-home father.

Too bad he wasn't staying at home that night.

[Jake]

Knowing the severity of his crime he arranged his own surrender.

Hynes up charging him to Garnet support from the Charedei community is as unethical as down charge Charedei pedophiles.

[Robert J. Barron, Attorney at Law]

Jake makes a very, very good point- and as someone who used to do criminal defense both at the Local, State and Federal Level, let me offer a tad bit of insight here --->

It is routine for prosecutors (both local, state and federal) to ALWAYS charge a defendant with a LOT of charges, some of them VERY severe, which carry a great deal of sentencing exposure.

Ya'll know why they do that?

Simple. So they can barter/trade them away with defense attorneys during the plea-bargaining process. Just b/c something is charged on an charging paper/information, or even a grand jury indictment, does not mean ANYTHING- other than that there is "probable cause" to believe that 1) a crime was committed, and 2) that the accused committed the crime.

But for a conviction (after a jury or bench trial) you've got to have proof "beyond a reasonable doubt"...which is a tremendous leap from "probable cause."

So what Hynes is doing is entirely predictable. He's going to charge this guy with as much as he can....and then he'll drop or dismiss the most severe charges so the defendant will at least plead to SOMETHING.

Everybody wins. The DA can count is as a conviction. The Judge does not have to tie up his/her Courtroom with a trial. The defendant does not have to worry about the outcome of a jury trial on the most severe charges.

Typical in the criminal justice system.

[Robert J. Barron, Attorney at Law]

I just remembered - if Rubashkin had taken the deal HE was offered, there'd be no way he would have been sentenced to 28 years.

I learned VERY early in the game that Federal Prosecutors HATE to go to trial- and they almost always offer your client what is known as a "take it and run deal" b/c they hate going to trial.

(They get paid the SAME whether or not cases go to trial or not...they are government employees, so they are always on that clock...but trials- especially long ones- are both mentally taxing and physically brutal. Both defense attorneys AND prosecutors literally age during long and drawn-out trials. It's not pleasant.)

Rubashkin was offered what- five years? Eight years? Something like that? But NOOOO.....he was just too smart to take that deal!

Dork.

[Russian PhD]

Yosef Lifsh, speeding and passing on red light, killed black child and badly injured another, was not in indicted.
Nechama Rothberger, texting when driving, killed Chinese immigrant, get no prison time.
Italian-American killing Jewish couple faces life in prison.
This is equality under the law in Jew-dominated NYC.

[Barry]

From NYT report on Grand Jury not indicting Yosef Lifsh:

The no-bill finding had been widely predicted, as the law covering car accidents makes criminal charges relatively rare. Two possible charges were submitted to the grand jury, criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. But Mr. Hynes said, explaining the law on vehicular homicide, the so-called "rule of two" which requires two negligent acts to justify a criminal indictment was not met.

A set of notes provided to reporters by the District Attorney explained that "to cross the threshold between civil and criminal liability, the evidence must prove a series (two or more) of negligent acts or one act of gross negligence. "Just losing control of a car by itself is not criminal negligence under the law," the legal notes said. "The fact that death or injury resulted by itself is not criminal negligence under the law."

The grand jury finding, formally known as a "no true bill," was greeted with jubilation by the tightly knit Lubavitcher community.

"The system proved it could work," Rabbi Shmuel Butman, the Lubavitcher spokesman, said at a news conference in Crown Heights last evening. "It stood up against hatred and terrorism and I hope it will continue to do so. The grand jury should never have been impaneled, but we have fully cooperated with the grand jury and the message has been delivered."

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/06/nyregion/grand-jury-doesn-t-indict-driver-in-death-of-boy-in-crown-heights.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Acevedo seems to have committed one negligent act -speeding - the fatal results do not in themselves make that act criminal.

Rabbi Butman need to deliver that message to Rabbi Neiderman

[Russian PhD]

With all condemning of violence against innocent people, the immoral behavior of Chabad-Lubavich community definitely contributed to the riots.
Yosef Lifsh was speeding and failed to stop at traffic lights. If he wasn’t from the “chosen race” and if Chabad-Lubavich mafia wouldn’t have strong influence within the Mayer and DA office, he would be definitely indicted and convicted. The fact that Lubavichers agreed to wait to the Grant Jury hearings and didn’t smuggle Lifsh to Israel immidiatelly after the event (like they did, with the direct order from Rebbe, with thye guy that violently attacked and badly wounded Rebetzen Hannah) says that they were SURE about positive outcome.
Lifsh explained that he “did not want to lose Rebbe’s car”, so the rest wasn’t so important. As a frequent guest in Crown Heights in early 2000th, I saw closely this behaviour. Once I participated in so-called “Tahaluchah” Simhcat Torah (an activity ordered by Rabbi, when students of central-770 yeshiva walk to NYC synagogues to stimulate celebrations there). I noticed that during the walking they behave with an absolute lack of respect to traffic lights and to other people on the streets. When I noted it, Lubavichers said me “we are on the mission of our Rebbe King Messiah, so human rules not apply to us”. I am pretty sure that Lifsh, that was so excited from the honour to accompany Rebbe’s car, followed the same logic.
On the scene of the event, Jewish Hatzalah Ambulance took care about lightly wounded Lifsh, and ignored dying black children. After the event, the Rebbe, that was involved, although indirectly, in the tragic accident, not only did not paid condolence visit to the victim family, but also totally ignored the event and did not address it in a single speech. In the absolutely same way Postville Lubavichers totally ignored the woman that was badly injured during the robe organized by two young Lubavichers, one of them is now called RABBI Pinny Lew.
So the riots were, if not justified, but very well understood. If it will continue this way, the criminal and bigoted cult of Lubavich, wrongly identified with Jewish Nation, can bring to us new Holocaust.
Sorry for the of-topic.