A New Jersey driver accused of killing National Hockey League star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew in an August 2024 crash made a stunning admission on Monday.
\n\nLawyers for 45-year-old Sean Higgins conceded that their client had actually been over the legal alcohol limit at the time of the crash, according to a report by New York Post.
\n\nThe defense team had initially claimed that Higgins’ blood-alcohol content was .075 — just below the legal limit of .08 — and that investigators botched the test results by only testing the defendant’s blood plasma rather than all of his blood.
\n\nThe prosecution, meanwhile, had asserted that Higgins’ blood-alcohol content was .087.
\n\n“It did come back, based upon the non-tainted tube, it came back as a .08, as opposed to .087,” Higgins’ lawyer, Richard Klineburger, said, implying that the defense’s now-accurate test still yielded a slightly lower result than the prosecution’s.
\n\nDespite the blood-alcohol concession, Higgins rejected the prosecution’s final offer to plead guilty to two counts of aggravated manslaughter and one count of a first DWI offense in exchange for 28 years behind bars — which would have reduced a possible nearly 100-year sentence.
\n\nSalem County Judge Michael Silvanio warned…
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