Judge chastises defense lawyer for calling DWI crash that injured mother and baby in Yonkers an 'accident'

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Judge chastises defense lawyer for calling DWI crash that injured mother and baby in Yonkers an 'accident'
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There was a courtroom clash Tuesday at the sentencing of drunk driver who struck a woman and her baby in Yonkers last year. AielloTV has the story.

Judge chastises defense lawyer for calling DWI crash that injured mother and baby in Yonkers an"accident"-- There was a courtroom clash at the sentencing of drunk driver who struck a woman and her baby., and body cam video from Yonkers cops who helped rescue them.

"I wish that the family could forgive me and what I have done," convicted drunk driver David Poncurak said."This was an accident," defense attorney Robert Feldman said. "The driving while drunk and on drugs was not accidental. That was a choice. To think of your client as anything other than a criminal would be misplaced. He's a criminal," Judge Barry Warhit said.police body cam video showing Yonkers cops and good Samaritans desperately lifting Poncurak's car to rescue the mother and child"My client got out of the car and helped the officers lift it. He showed what he was made of on that film," Feldman said.

Warhit credited Poncurak for accepting responsibility and pleading guilty to the top charge, aggravated vehicular assault, before sentencing him to a maximum of seven and a half years in prison.

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