The Vermont man receives 4½ years for a crash that is a seriously wounded family of Island – the recorder

Greenfield, a Vermont man, convicted of causing the crash that a seriously injured family of Rod Island in 2023 was sentenced to 4½ years in prison on Tuesday after statements of emotional influence by victims.

The 33 -year -old Javeri Hatat from Bennington, Vermont, will be a probationary period of three years after being served in prison in Franklin County and the House of Greenfield. Last month, jurors condemned a census of negligent work of a motor vehicle, four units for reckless attack and a battery with a dangerous weapon, and one count of possession of a Class B substance (cocaine) after a one -week test.

The judge of the Supreme Court of the Franklin County Duncan Duncan imposed sentences on Tuesday after hearing statements written by the four members of the Soikovski family, as well as the affected children’s aunt and family friend.

“I really feel the pain that this family has experienced through,” Duncan said.

Stephanie Soykovski said that there was no words to accurately describe the pain she had experienced in the last two years and that Hatta’s actions “cannot be canceled.”

Hatat was behind the wheel of the Toyota Tacoma on March 12, 2023, when he turned into the oncoming traffic lane near Longview Tower on Road 2 in Greenfield, crashing at the Nissan Armada, carrying the Sojkowski family. The clash hospitalizes Stephanie, her husband Steve and their two children. They returned home to Westerley, Rod Island, from skiing in Berkshire East Mountain Resort in Charlmont when they were struck. Parents have suffered various severe, life-changing injuries, including a broken nose, femur, knee cap, ribs, pelvis and sacrum, while children suffer relatively less significant injuries.

When he was questioned by police at the Baystate Franklin Medical Center after the crash, Hatta told officers that he fell asleep after he had swallowed cocaine all night, but had stopped to stimulate damage. He also admitted that he smoked marijuana about an hour before driving to “stay awake” and have a recipe for Suboxone.

Stephanie Soykovski said he would never be able to understand the degree of suffering he had caused. She also said she was afraid to become known as the family involved in a devastating incident.

“We just want to be Soykovsky,” she told Duncan.

Assistant to the District Attorney Aidan Lanchani, who pursues the case together with the first assistant prosecutor Stephen Gagne, read statements of the impact of the two children and a family friend.

Jeffrey Soykovski, who was 12 years old during the crash, told the day that changed his life forever.

“I remember waking up to people who didn’t know they were asking me if I was fine,” he wrote, referring to good Samaritans who stopped contributing to the stage.

The boy became emotional, hearing his words and comforting himself from his sister, his mother, his aunt and a man sitting behind him.

“When I saw my mother [in the hospital]I was scared because she was not like anything like my mother, “Jeffrey wrote.

Maya Soykovski, who was 9 years old when the crash happened, wrote that she and her brother were looking forward to stopping for food in McDonald’s near Rotary on Interstate 91 before continuing home. She also reminded herself how scared she was in the ambulance after seeing her parents unconscious in the front seats, with their heads hanging.

“I thought my parents were dead,” Maya writes. “When my parents asked what I mean [Hattat]I just wanted to say two words, but I’m not allowed to say these words. “

As he exported his statement of impact, Steve Soykovsky struggles with tears as he described that he could no longer physically play with his children. He refers to a lawyer for a metaphor of defense R. David Deer, made while talking to the jurors during the final arguments. Deherdt compared the liability of the jurors to bake the cake, describing the law such as the recipe, the facts such as the ingredients and the severity of proof as a measuring cup. Soykovsky describes in detail the physical agony he encounters every day and how he can no longer throw a baseball.

“What does this measuring cup look like now?” He asked rhetorically.

Then Gagne turned to Duncan and demanded a sentence of seven to eight years in the State Prison.

“I would say that the power and sustainability demonstrated by the Soikovski family are amazing,” Gagne said in a telephone interview. “I hope that the defendant’s verdict and sentence gives them some measure of justice and healing as they continue along the long way of recovery.”

Hatat speak briefly and apologized to the Soikovski family about the physical and emotional pain he has inflicted.

“I hope you will find it in your heart one day forgive me,” he said.

His sentence includes 100 hours of public service, as well as drug abuse consultations, random drug screenings and without driving, unless he is released to do it by a neurologist. Deherdt unsuccessfully claims in a test that the crash was caused by Hatat – who has no cocaine or marijuana in his system when his blood was attracted to the hospital – with a seizure, probably due to brain injury in 2014.

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