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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 Los...Read Full Story

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 level...Read Full Story

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 telephone...Read Full Story

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

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

August 22, 2009 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports the Oscar winning writer of Pulp Fiction pleaded guilty of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence. Roger Avary the Hollywood writer after pleading guilty in Ventura County to driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter and is scheduled to be sentenced next month, for the accident that took place on January 13th that took the life of Avary’s passenger. Avary who was driving his Mercedes sedan home late on...Read Full Story

Screenwriter of Pulp fiction Roger Avary has been sentenced to jail for one year after killing a newlywed Italian human being in a drunken driving crash in California last year. Oscar winning writer appealed guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other charges curtailing from January 2008. Andreas Zini was killed in the accident, which happened last year, and Avery’s wife injured. Roger Avary urged to the judge in the courtroom that this incident had...Read Full Story

Miramax Films, Jeffrey Mayer/Getty Images He won't be walking the Earth like Caine in Kung Fu anytime soon. Roger Avary, the screenwriter who nabbed an Academy Award cowriting Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, has been sentenced to a year in jail stemming from a fatal 2008 drunken-driving accident that took the life of a friend. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Edward Bordie also gave Avary five years' probation and ordered him to enroll in a DUI education program. Bordie justified the...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Film writer Roger Avary has been sentenced to a year in prison for causing a 2008 car crash in Ojai, Calif., that left one passenger dead. Avary pleaded guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other charges. Police said he was drunk and speeding when he crashed his Mercedes into a telephone pole, killing 34-year-old Andreas Zini and ejecting Avary's wife, Gretchen, from the vehicle, seriously injuring her. The Los Angeles Times...Read Full Story

He won't be walking the earth like Caine in Kung Fu anytime soon. Roger Avary, the screenwriter who nabbed an Academy Award cowriting Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, has been sentenced to a year in jail stemming from a fatal 2008 drunken-driving accident that took the life of a friend. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Edward Bordie also gave Avary five years' probation and ordered him to enroll in a DUI education program. Bordie justified the relatively light punishment by stating...Read Full Story