Attorneys representing the accused drunk driver who struck and killed newlywed bride Samantha Hutchinson on the day of her South Carolina nuptials are asking the public “not to rush to judgment.”
Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, last week retained two high-powered attorneys, Nathan S. Williams and Christopher S. Gramiccioni, to defend her in her criminal case.
Williams is a former federal prosecutor best known for trying mass shooter Dylann Roof and convincing a jury to give him the death penalty.
Gramiccioni spent nearly a decade serving as a prosecutor in Monmouth County, New Jersey, before entering private practice in 2021.
“We cannot fathom what the families are going through and offer our deepest sympathies,” the attorneys said in a written statement to the Post & Courier. “We simply ask that there not be a rush to judgment. Our court system is founded upon principles of justice and mercy and that is where all facts will come to light.”
Komoroski, formerly a waitress at a taco eatery, is accused of drunkenly rear-ending a golf cart that Hutchinson and her new husband, Aric Hutchinson, were riding in after their wedding reception at Folley Beach, South Carolina, on April 28.
Officials said Komoroski was going 40 mph over the 25-mph speed limit in her rented Toyota Camry along a poorly lit residential street when she slammed into the newlyweds’ slow-moving vehicle, which was thrown 100 yards on impact and rolled over several times.
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