Crime & Safety
Deadly Drunken Crash Gets Driver 7 Years: Court Supervision
An Orland Park man getting a seven-year sentence for killing a nurse in a fatal crash is just one of the stories in this week's Court Supervision.
By Joe Hosey
An Orland Park man getting a seven-year sentence for killing a nurse in a fatal crash is just one of the stories in this week's Court Supervision.
Nearly a year ago, Matthew Senica of Orland Park ran a red light and crashed into a car driven by a nurse on her way to work at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
The nurse, 51-year-old Heidi Roseen of Lockport, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and pronounced dead at the hospital where she worked.
After almost a full year of court hearings, Senica, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated drunken driving. He took a seven year prison sentence but has already served 324 days of it in the Cook County jail.
Here's what else was going on in the area's courthouses:
- The attorney for alleged teenage double-murderer Mohammad Salahat presented a proposal to a prosecutor in a sealed envelope. The prosecutor did not read or discuss the proposal during last week's court hearing, or even open the envelope.
- Negotiations between the attorney for Kevin Skaritka and prosecutors continued as the Orland Park man's sex crime cases were scheduled to return to court later this month.
- The grandson of Will County Board Republican Chairman Jim Moustis made his first court appearance for a felony theft case. A public defender was appointed to represent the grandson, Nicholas Moustis.
- Even though a Will County judge ordered the case files for two young men and two young women charged with abrutal double murder on Joliet's Hickory Street to be re-opened, the files remained sealed for nearly another week.
- The attorney for a Burr Ridge college student charged with killing a man while driving drugged up and drunk said hereceived some discovery evidence but is waiting on more.
- Two days after their co-defendant's attorney made a proposalin a Palos Township double murder case, the three other alleged killers appeared at the Bridgeview courthouse with their own lawyers.
- A retiree filed a lawsuit against a Plainfield couple he says scammed him out of $50,000 on a real estate deal.
- A Joliet white supremacist was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for torching a black family's home.
- The Will County judge presiding over the case of a Lemont man charged with punching and ultimately killing a Romeoville man at the culmination of an escalating traffic dispute said a defense attorney failed to provide her with specific information on the victim's alleged history of "road rages."
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