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Verdict coming Sept. 1 in fatal DUI crash near Marseilles · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Verdict coming September first, and fatal DUI crash near Marseilles
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  Speaker 1: written by Tom Collins. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. A Sterling
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  Speaker 1: man finds out September first, whether he'll face up to
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years for a twenty twenty three crash that killed
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  Speaker 1: a Leland woman on Interstate eighty near Marseilles. Joshua monty
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  Speaker 1: In fifty declined to take the stand Monday in LaSalle
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  Speaker 1: County Circuit Court, where he's charged with aggravated dui, a
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  Speaker 1: class two felony, carrying only a limited shot at probation.
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  Speaker 1: During a short bench trial concluded Monday, LaSalle County prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: produced video evidence showing it was Mantine's mac truck that
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  Speaker 1: collided August eighteenth, twenty twenty three, with a jeep driven
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  Speaker 1: by Joyce Riskical fifty four. She died from multiple traumas
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  Speaker 1: LaSalle County Circuit Judge Michelle Aveskanye announced that she had
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  Speaker 1: multiple documents to review and would take the case under
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  Speaker 1: advisement and reveal her verdict at one pm Tuesday, September first.
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  Speaker 1: The case comes down now to whether vescogni believes Muntian
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  Speaker 1: was under the influence of cocaine. Monday, Carol Stream defense
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  Speaker 1: attorney Michelle McClellan called to the stand a toxicologist who
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  Speaker 1: said the urine specimen investigators collected from Mountian following the
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  Speaker 1: crash may have been unreliable. Doctor James O'Donnell testified that
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  Speaker 1: a blood draw is the gold standard for proving intoxication,
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  Speaker 1: and that a urine specimen wouldn't necessarily show intoxication at
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  Speaker 1: the time of the accident, but instead show residual markers
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  Speaker 1: of past use. During closing arguments, McClellan further argued the
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  Speaker 1: test conducted couldn't show a concentration of cocaine that would
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  Speaker 1: reliably show whether the accident was the result of impairment,
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  Speaker 1: and we cannot fill the gaps in the scientific evidence.
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  Speaker 1: We are not disputing this as a tragedy, McClellan said,
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  Speaker 1: adding later, but a tragic accident is not automatically an
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  Speaker 1: aggravated DUI. Jeremiah Adams, assistant LaSalle County State's attorney, argued
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  Speaker 1: that the law doesn't require a showing of any concentration
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  Speaker 1: of intoxicating compound. There is no responsibility to show the
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  Speaker 1: amount of substance. Adams said, any amount is all that
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  Speaker 1: is necessary.