A New York state trooper testified that he believes Kerry Kennedy may have suffered a medical event, rather than being impaired by drugs, when her car crashed into a truck in 2012.
A New York state trooper testified Tuesday at Kerry Kennedy 's drugged-driving trial that he was concerned she might have suffered a seizure or stroke after her car swerved into a truck in 2012. Trooper Bradley Molloy said the daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy passed several drug tests that he administered at the police station. The tests included having Kennedy follow the tip of a pen with her eyes, stand on one leg and touch the tip of her finger to her nose, Molloy said.
On Monday, a North Castle town police officer, Joel Thomas, said he had administered four field sobriety tests, involving eye movements, walking and turning, reciting part of the alphabet and standing on one leg. Kennedy only passed one, reciting the alphabet from J to T, he said. Kennedy told the trooper that she had consumed some carrots and a cappuccino that morning and had slept about eight hours the night before. Molloy said Kennedy also told him she was concerned that she might have accidentally taken a sleeping pill instead of her thyroid medication. She said she had Ambien and the thyroid pills next to each other in her medicine cabinet. 'The defendant was not impaired by any drug,' Molloy said.'I feel she may have suffered a medical condition while driving.'A forensic toxicologist testified later Tuesday that most people experience the effects of Ambien within 15 to 45 minutes of taking it. But Elizabeth Spratt, a prosecution witness who works for the Westchester County Department of Laboratories and Research, said it can take up to two hours for the drug to take effect. Spratt said the effects include sleepiness, poor motor coordination and headaches. The drug can also cause amnesia, meaning that many people don't remember much after they've taken Ambien, she said. Kennedy is the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and niece of President John F. Kennedy. Her mother, Ethel Kennedy, and a sister, Rory Kennedy, were both in the courtroo
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