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"Pulp Fiction" screenwriter jailed for fatal crash

| From reuters.com
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday after killing a newlywed Italian passenger in a drunken driving crash in California last year. Avary, 44, pleaded guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other charges stemming from the January 2008 collision that killed his Italian friend Andreas Zini and injured Avary's wife. The crash occurred in the city of Ojai, 80 miles northwest of...Read Full Story

Screenwriter Faces Charges of Vehicular Manslaughter After Blood Alcohol Is Over The Legal Limit

By injuryattorney on | From criminalrights.blogspot.com
December 13, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by drunk driving lawyers in Los Angeles , screenwriter Roger Avary has been charged by the prosecutors office with gross vehicular manslaughter on Friday. The charges stem from a January 13th single car accident , which caused the death of his passenger Andreas Zini. According to reports Avary failed to negotiate a curve and crashed into a telephone pole while driving a Mercedes sedan and at the time of the accident his blood alcohol...Read Full Story

'Pulp Fiction' writer sentenced in fatal DUI crash

| From ap.org
An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has been sentenced to a year in jail for causing a fatal traffic crash in Southern California. Roger Avary was sentenced Tuesday in a Ventura court. He also received five years of probation. Avary pleaded guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for the 2008 crash that killed a passenger in Avary's Mercedes in Ventura County. Authorities say Avary's car was traveling at more than 100 mph when it crashed into a...Read Full Story

'Pulp Fiction' writer pleads guilty in fatal crash

| From ap.org
An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a crash that killed a passenger in his Mercedes. Roger Avary of Ojai, Calif., entered the pleas Tuesday in a Ventura court. He'll be sentenced next month and remains free on bail. Authorities say the 43-year-old was intoxicated when his car hit a telephone pole in Ojai on Jan. 13, 2008. The crash injured his wife and killed 34-year-old Andreas Zini, who was visiting from Italy...Read Full Story

Oscar Winner and Screenwriter of Pulp Fiction Gets Jail Sentence

By injuryattorney on | From caraccidentlawsuits.blogspot.com
September 30, 2009 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports the Oscar winning screen writer of films like Pulp Fiction and Beowulf received a jail sentence in a deadly DUI crash in January 2008. Roger Avary, famed screenwriter was driving a Mercedes sedan at the time of the crash and according to police was driving at over 100 miles per hour. Prosecutor Michael Lief stated that at the time of the collision Avary age 44 had a blood alcohol level that was over the legal limit and had passenger...Read Full Story
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