Posted on 02/27/2014 3:18:36 PM PST by Impala64ssa
A jury was poised to begin deliberations after Kerry Kennedy told them how she accidentally took prescription sleeping pills that then "overtook" her, causing her to crash her car on a highway. Kennedy, 54, took the stand to testify in her own defense Wednesday in her drugged driving trial. She is accused of driving under the influence of zolpidem, a sleep medication better known as Ambien, and slamming her SUV into a truck on a New York highway in July 2013.One final witness, a forensic pharmacologist, is expected to be called by the defense on Thursday to testify to the effects of Ambien before final arguments are made and the case goes to the jury.Within minutes of taking the stand Kennedy invoked the name of her late father, Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy's famous lineage has been a focal point for the defense as they've tried to present her as an upstanding citizen with no drug or alcohol problems. The daughter of RFK and Ethel Kennedy, whom she was photographed pushing in a wheelchair into and out of court earlier in the week, is also a niece of President John F. Kennedy and was married to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "Daddy was the attorney general during the civil rights movement," Kerry Kennedy said after taking the stand, explaining to jurors why she grew up in Virginia. "I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8," she said. Asked how he died, Kennedy said, "He was killed while running for president."
What kind of an idiot takes Ambien before getting in a car to drive on the Thruway?
At least, take away her driver’s license for 5 years!
Well at least nobody drowned like when uncle teddy got behind the wheel.
She is lucky she didn’t end up in the water gasping for air then dying .... I think some relative did that to a women years ago.
Since the left just loves to ban stuff how about they ban the Kennedy’s from ever possessing Ambien?
You know to save the children and all that...
“What kind of an idiot takes Ambien before getting in a car to drive on the Thruway?
At least, take away her driver’s license for 5 years!”
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It’s a Kennedy... They can do no wrong./S
I took ambien once to get to sleep, and I can’t understand how anyone would think it’s a good idea to get into a car after taking it. 5 minutes after taking I was lucky to get to the bedroom.
All this for a misdemeanor traffic ticket?
That’s how it is advertised to work. It says on the box: Do not take unless you can go to bed for 8 hours. (Something like that.)
Guess she was too drunk to read the instructions.
This proves the Kennedys and the DNC
should control everyone else.
How many times do people in your family have to have trouble with operating motorized vehicles under various forms of impairment, particularly chemical, before you realize, hey, maybe it’s a really bad idea to eat Ambien and try to drive?
Yeah, you’d have to be pretty danged dumb or willfully ignorant of your prescription meds to take Ambien before getting behind the wheel.
I took one of those, one time. Never again. I’d rather deal with my bouts of insomnia than the effects that little pill had on me. Yikes!
What kind of an idiot takes Ambien before getting in a car to drive on the Thruway?
An arrogant, I’m above the laws of the common people, Kerry Kennedy.
There should be a law against Kennedy’s driving a car.
They have so much money, why don’t they employ a driver.
Demonstrating that not all spoiled brats are kids.
A Kennedy.
“... accidentally took prescription sleeping pills ...”
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Pill’s fault!
Kennedys - Can’t Drive, Can’t Fly, Can’t Ski, Can’t Skipper a Boat.....but they know what’s best for us.
Is she saying she didn’t know she had taken Ambien?
Yes. She “must have taken it by accident.” So she says.
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