Christy Natsis deserves leniency, sentencing hearing told
A killer drunk driver took her first steps towards incarceration Tuesday after being convicted of a deadly 2011 crash.
Pembroke dentist Christy Natsis killed Bryan Casey in a head-on collision on Hwy. 17 near Arnprior on March 31, 2011. Now the Crown wants her to serve up to eight years in prison; the defence is arguing for substantially less time.
Driving back from a Kanata bar, witnesses described Natsis’s black SUV weaving erratically right up until the collision.
Her blood-alcohol level the night of the crash was several times the legal limit. But, during the months of her hard-fought trial those readings were tossed after Judge Neil Kozloff ruled OPP had violated her rights by shutting down a call to her lawyer.
Nevertheless, observations of her drunken demeanour and boozy odour combined with other witnesses’ evidence of her bad driving allowed Kozloff to convict her of criminal charges — impaired and dangerous driving causing death — in May.
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