Drunk driver Jamie Lee Komoroski has bond denied
Drunk driver Jamie Lee Komoroski has bond denied after she killed newlywed bride and injured groom when she plowed speeding car into their golf cart as they left their wedding
- Komoroski will remain behind bars awaiting trial as she faces charges of reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of driving under the influence
- Circuit Judge Michael Nettles requested that both parties work to expedite the trial, which is set to take place in March 2024
- Komoroski appeared in court by video, sporting a striped prison jumpsuit and appearing visibly distraught and uncomfortable
A judge denied bond for Jamie Lee Komoroski, the 25-year-old accused of killing a newlywed bride and injuring the groom when she drunkenly plowed her speeding car into their golf cart on their wedding day.
Komoroski will remain behind bars awaiting trial as she faces charges of reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of driving under the influence causing death or great bodily injury.
Komoroski appeared in court by video, sporting a striped prison jumpsuit and looking visibly distraught and uncomfortable as the South Carolina circuit denied her bond appeal.
Circuit Judge Michael Nettles requested that both parties work to expedite the trial, which is scheduled for March 2024.
If the case is not heard by then, Komoroski can be released on $150,000 bond, and be placed on house arrest with electronic monitoring.
‘This is certainly a very tragic situation for all concerned,’ Nettles said after delivering his decision.
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Komoroski will remain behind bars awaiting trial as she faces charges of reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of driving under the influence causing death or great bodily injury
Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, is pictured in a mugshot after the fatal crash when she killed a bride on her wedding night. A judge has denied bond for Komoroski
She can be seen looking upward during a brief recess on Tuesday, breathing heavily with a puffy red face, appearing emotional and close to tears.
She looked visibly shaken throughout the proceeding.
‘She didn’t just kill my child,’ Lisa Miller, the bride’s mother, said to the court in tears. ‘She killed all of us.’
Attorneys for Komoroski were requesting a $100,000 bond under the conditions that she attend a rehabilitation program, remain under her mother´s supervision and forgo access to a vehicle or alcohol.
The defense argued that she did not pose a community danger or flight risk and emphasized her lack of prior criminal history and strong family support.
Komoroski has been housed at the Charleston County Detention Center since the morning of April 29, 2023, without bond.
The 25-year-old was three times over the legal drinking limit when she killed Samantha Hutchinson, 34, in Folly Beach, South Carolina. Hutchinson and her new husband Aric, 36, were being ferried from their wedding reception in the golf cart.
It has been reported that Komoroski has received special treatment in the Charleston County jail.
She had in-person visits from her family – a privilege not normally extended to inmates – that were organized by Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano, according to jail call recordings, obtained by the Post and Courier.
Two days after the crash, during a call with her parents she cried: ‘Oh my God. I just can’t believe this happened to me. … Why me? … I’m going to be here for years and years and years and years.
‘I can’t believe this is my life… my whole life is going to be over,’ she added.
Miller died and Hutchinson was severely injured when their golf cart (pictured) rolled multiple times and was thrown 100 yards by Komoroski’s Toyota Camry
Hutchinson was left in a wheelchair after suffering two broken legs, multiple facial fractures and a concussion. He is seen here at a beachside memorial for his late bride
In snippets of recorded jail visits from family members obtained and published by the Post and Courier, Komoroski is shown weeping and wailing ‘why me?’ filled with apparent self-pity and saying that her life is over
In a strange twist it emerged that Komoroski’s mother Traci was also once involved in a fatal car crash
According to Live 5 News, the Sheriff’s office has denied further requests for calls made by the woman charged in the fatal crash.
Weeks after the Sheriff’s Office provided the recordings to the newspaper, they said that after the initial release, ‘counsel and other interested’ parties were concerned that similar releases would ‘interfere with the administration of justice,’ according to Live 5 News.
Komoroski’s blood alcohol content was 0.261, three times over the limit the night of April 28, and reportedly told responding officers in the wake of the crash: ‘All of a sudden something hit me. I did nothing wrong.’
Driving a rented Toyota Camry, Komoroski was driving at 65mph in a 25mph zone, along a poorly lit residential street around 10:00 p.m. on East Ashley Avenue.
Komoroski rear ended a golf cart carrying the bride and groom, causing it to be thrown 100 yards and flip over several times – killing Hutchinson and seriously injuring her new husband.
In a strange twist it emerged that Komoroski’s mother Traci was also once involved in a fatal car crash
A wrongful death lawsuit that was filed on behalf of the groom, Aric Hutchinson, alleges that Komoroski was heavily intoxicated when she struck the back of their golf cart on Folly Beach at a high speed.
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