An legal professional for a Suffolk Regulation graduate accused of driving drunk and crashing right into a 73-year-old Boston man who later died from his accidents mentioned his consumer is “not an 18-year-old gang kid,” when recommending circumstances for her potential launch.
Cambridge Decide David Frank has elevated money bail for Lauren Mullins, 32, of Roselle Park, N.J., from $15,000 to $65,000, ordering the defendant to GPS house confinement, a SCRAM gadget, and to give up her passport if she posts bail.
Mullins is accused of inflicting a multi-vehicle crash early final Friday morning on the busy Cambridge intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Road. She allegedly crashed the SUV she had been working right into a moped and subsequently into an MIT Police cruiser, each of which had been touring eastbound forward of Mullins’ car.
Emergency responders took the operator of the moped, Daniel O’Neil, to Massachusetts Basic Hospital, the place he died on Sunday, Middlesex Assistant District Legal professional Kailey Verni mentioned throughout a bail listening to on Thursday.
Frank accepted all of Verni’s suggestions besides that the money bail be elevated to $100,000 from the $15,000 set throughout Mullins’ arraignment hours after the crash final Friday. Mullins’ bail was revoked on a pending case out of Boston Municipal Courtroom.
Mullins’ legal professional Daniel Solomon referred to as the $15,000 bail “more than adequate” and requested that if his consumer met that quantity and was launched, she wouldn’t have the ability to drive or drink.
“Home confinement? This is not an 18-year-old gang kid,” Solomon mentioned.
Verni responded to the declare, saying: “While yes, this defendant might not be a young gang kid, through making the choice to get behind the wheel at 1:30 in the morning on a public road and taking the life of a completely innocent person, she is showing that she is dangerous out in the community.”
Cambridge Police arrested Mullins on the scene on fees of Working Below the Affect – Liquor with Severe Bodily Harm and Negligent Operation of a Motor Automobile.
Verni mentioned whereas the crash stays beneath investigation, the prosecution intends to carry extra fees towards Mullins in a superior court docket. On the time of the crash, O’Neil suffered “serious bodily injury, but he was expected to survive,” she added.
“It should also be noted that officers were unable to conduct a standard field sobriety test due to the defendant’s belligerent nature and behavior,” Verni mentioned, “but they did note that she had slurred speech and that she was extremely unsteady on her feet.”
BMC court docket information present Mullins has pleaded not responsible to fees of assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery with a harmful weapon, disturbing the peace and trespass. Particulars weren’t instantly obtainable Thursday.
Mullins additionally has a file in New Jersey that features fees of “drunken and disorderly behavior on public sidewalks and roadways” final June and aggravated assault on a police officer and disorderly conduct in January.
Mullins’ LinkedIn profile lists that she graduated from Boston College in 2014 earlier than she gained a doctorate from Suffolk College Regulation Faculty in 2019.
“She did have a bad year in the last year,” Solomon mentioned of his consumer, “and she has had some issues, and those issues will be addressed.”
The legal professional contrasted the deadly crash with “someone who gets into a bar fight and beats the hell out of somebody who is very badly hurt … and the person later dies.”
“This isn’t as bad as that,” he mentioned.
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