An actor who appeared in the 1990s prime-time soap opera “Melrose Place” has lost a bid to have her sentence in a 2010 fatal auto crash reduced. An appeals court in NJ rejected Amy Locane’s arguments in a ruling published Tuesday.
Amy Locane was convicted on vehicular manslaughter and other counts for the crash that killed a 60-year-old woman and severely injured her husband; the actor's blood alcohol level was likely about three times the legal limit and she was going nearly 20 mph over the speed limitAn actor who appeared in the 1990s prime-time soap opera “Melrose Place” has lost a bid to have her sentence in a 2010 fatal auto crash reduced.
Locane was convicted on vehicular manslaughter and other counts for the crash that killed 60-year-old Helene Seeman and severely injured Seeman’s husband, Fred. While she wasn't charged with drunk driving, a state expert testified Locane's blood alcohol level was likely about three times the legal limit and that she was driving roughly 53 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone at the time of the crash in Montgomery Township, near Princeton.
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