Former "Melrose Place" actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer, 40, is taken into custody after jurors in Somerville, N.J., convicted her of vehicular homicide. At left is her attorney Ellen Torregrossa-O'Connor. (Robert Sciarrino / Newark Star Ledger / November 27, 2012)
Amy Locane-Bovenizer was found guilty Tuesday of vehicular homicide related to a June 2010 accident that left a 60-year-old woman dead in central New Jersey.
The conviction on that charge and a separate one of assault by auto capped a trial that ran about a month and a half and saw some 50 people take the stand. Locane-Bovenizer was not one of them.
According to the prosecution, the community-theater actress was drinking at a cast party and then later at a barbecue she attended with her family before hitting the road alone in her SUV.
Prosecutors said the actress had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit and was traveling 53 mph in a 35-mph zone when her SUV slammed into a sedan that was turning left, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported.
Killed in the accident was passenger Helene Seeman. Her husband, driver Fred Seeman, was seriously hurt, spurring the assault-by-auto charge.
Locane-Bovenizer was taken into custody after her bail was revoked. The mother of two faces five to 10 years in prison on the vehicular homicide count and three to five on the assault by auto. She must serve at least 85% of her sentence before she's eligible for parole, according to the Star-Ledger, and the sentences might run consecutively.
Locane-Bovenizer was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter, a more serious charge. Sentencing is set for March 1.
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