Former 'Melrose Place' Star Amy Locane Indicted for Aggravated Manslaughter

Six months after striking two separate cars during a
wine-fueled drive--and killing a passenger in one of the cars--former 'Melrose Place' star Amy Locane-Bovenizer has been indicted on charges of aggravated manslaughter and assault by auto,
TMZ.com reports.
Locane-Bovenizer was involved in a hit-and-run collision in Montgomery, New Jersey this past June. Minutes after leaving the scene of that accident, she slammed her 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe into the passenger side of another vehicle, killing passenger, Helene Seeman. The manslaughter and assault charges stem from the second accident.
TMZ reports that Locane-Bovenizer was indicted Thursday by a grand jury in Somerset County. She faces 10-30 years in jail for the manslaughter charge and an additional 5-10 for the assault by car charge.
Locane-Bovenizer's lawyer Blair Zwillman told TMZ he's "surprised" at the aggravated manslaughter charge, adding, "I don't believe it is supported by the law or the facts and I think it constitutes over-reaching by the prosecutor's office."
Locane-Bovenizer fled the scene of her first crash when the driver of that car attempted to call for help. The driver followed her, telling police that the actress was "swerving and knocking down several mailboxes."
After driving 17 miles to another town, the actress struck the second car, killing the passenger. Officers on the scene said she had alcohol on her breath and her eyes were bloodshot. She was arrested and taken to a nearby medical center to have her blood-alcohol level tested.
While in custody, the actress admitted to having several glasses of wine that day.
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People who drive drunk always think, "It can't happen to me". And then when it DOES, they try to get out of taking any responsibility.
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No winners here.
Lets hope she doesn't beat the rap like celebs seem to do.
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Thats the truth she deserves it and some since they always get little time or whatever.
She hasn't qualified as a celebrity in a long time, if ever. I did love her in Crybaby though.
You mean beat the rap like white celebs seem to always do. They lock up the Black ones for next to nothing, and any little thing! Good ole just-us system in the good ole boy U.S.
Lock her up!!!She killed a person!!! They lock up the Black ones for next to nothing, and any little thing! Good ole just-us system in the good ole boy U.S.
I wonder who she will pay off???
Then she can do it again, like all celebs.
Hey...janaprecise.....How about OJ ?? Sliced up TWO people and beat that rap !!!
Half of all motor vehicle accidents involve people who have been drinking. That means half of all motor vehicle accidents involve people who haven't been drinking. So clearly, it makes no difference whether you drink and drive or don't drink and drive. So why is everyone so down on those who drink and drive? Why aren't the police ticketing drivers with a blood alcohol content of 0% when they're just as likely as anyone else to get into an accident. Where is the organization, "Mothers Against Non-drinking Drivers?"
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Surely, you jest....people who are drunk should never drive. It's true that 50% of all accidents are caused by drunk drivers, but that is very insensitive to say that people there should be, " mothers against non-drinking drivers".....pleeeeze :/
Maybe part of the problem is:
50 percent of accidents are caused by a group of people (drunk drivers) that are not even close to being 50 percent of people on the road. If 10 percent of drivers are drunk (and I doubt it's nearly that high), then they are responsible for FIVE TIMES more accidents than non-drunk drivers. Simple (apparently too simple) math.
Hey Tom, an "accident" is when something happens that isn't anyone's fault per se, like the chain-reaction crash Brandy was in that killed a woman. But someone who gets drunk, gets behind the wheel and has not one but TWO crashes that result in someone being killed is a murderer, same as if she'd used a gun.
You are the stupidest A-hole who has ever lived. I'm willing to bet that you are a chronic alcoholic. One more thing, if you ever drink and drive and cause an accident, I hope you are the one who dies; or, better yet, gets paralysed from the neck down.
If your numbers are correct, then the truth would be that by eliminating drunk driving, we would eliminate 50% of accidents on the road. So put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Goodness, you're not too bright.
shut up lookyloo you paralize from the waist up?
JANAPRECISE........ALWAYS ARREST THE BLACK???
DO YOU MEAN LIKE PREMEDITATED MURDER AS IN O.J. SIMPSON, WHO BEAT THE RAP, OR LIKE POLITICAL CRIMES, AS IN, CHARLIE RANGLE???
Spoken like a true RATIONALIZING ALCOHOLIC, Tom. You must be one too?
Linzey Lohan should take note...this could have been her. If it had been you know she'd be lying about it anyway.
I feel sorry for this girl, but she needs to pay the price for her actions. Of course, I feel much sorrier for her victim and her victim's family.
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