WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA: "Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was found not guilty on seven counts of manslaughter in a crash that killed seven people more than three years ago on a New Hampshire road. The seven who died were part of a Marines motorcycle club and were from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. That verdict is causing a lot of controversy. “I’ll tell you what, the motorcycle community today is stunned,” said Dennis Bolduc, owner of Indian Motorcycle of Springfield. “We are stunned.” After nearly two hours of deliberations, the jury found that 26-year-old Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty of all charges. The West Springfield man from Ukraine faced multiple counts of negligent homicide, manslaughter, driving under the influence, and reckless conduct.
Prosecutors argued that Zhukovskyy, who had taken heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine that day, repeatedly swerved back and forth before the head-on crash and told police he caused it. However, a judge dismissed eight charges related to whether he was impaired. Zhukovskyy’s commercial driving license should have been revoked in Massachusetts at the time of the crash because of a drunken driving arrest in Connecticut about two months earlier. His license wasn’t suspended due to a backlog in out-of-state notifications about driving offenses."
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