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."
He is Ethel Kennedy’s nephew, but, yes, I see your point.
Just how many pills must one be on before "accidentally" taking an Ambien?
It's used for sleep. Not for everyday hypertension control.
It shouldn't have ever been in her "candy bowl" of daily drugs.
The Kennedys have had nothing but bad luck just "befall" them.
Like a curse.
Bad luck HAPPENED to make them sleep with the underage babysitter.
Bad luck made them drive drunk and kill an innocent woman.
Bad luck made them have sex with anything in a skirt.
Bad luck made them run into a tree while skiing.
Bad luck made a cousin beat a woman to death with a golf club.
Bad luck made Ted's nephew rape a woman in the Kennedy compound's pool.
Bad luck made JFK Jr. fly his plane into the ocean, when he wasn't trained for instrument controls.
So why can't we all be more compassionate?
Not like a Kennedy ever made horrible choices or anything.
The Kennedys.They didn’t shoot enough them.
Try Trazadone instead, AC.
No, you don’t have the MSM talking points down.
The Kennedys have had nothing but bad luck just “befall” them.
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Oh, my, you are so right. Some right-winger must have slipped me some sort of drug....I got so confused and then so logical there for a minute....
If I promise to memorize and recite the list of Kennedy misfortunes that you posted, will you please promise to convince them that I do not need to go to the re-education camp?
Kerry Kennedy just had some good luck—ACQUITTED!
And there are people who are SERIOUSLY saying how DARE they have tried to prosecute her for an accident!
OK, thought experiment here. If any non-Kennedy or non-liberal got into an accident after they took an Ambien or say some over the counter Nyquil. And was caught by police, completely obliterated out of their minds, failing every sobriety "field test".
Just what do you think would happen to said person?
So what that she "mixed up" her Ambien with her "thyroid medicine".
Horse$hit.
I don't believe it, and even so, she was still IMPAIRED.
Kennedys. Is there ANYTHING they can't get away with?
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