Kerry Kennedy Trial Scheduled to Begin Feb. 24
Kerry Kennedy’s drugged driving trial that was moved out of North Castle last week is set to begin next month in state Supreme Court in White Plains.
Following a pre-trial conference on Jan. 23 at the Westchester County courthouse, Gerald Lefcourt, an attorney representing Kennedy, said jury selection has been scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 20 while the trial is slated to begin on Feb. 24.
Kennedy was charged with the misdemeanor DWI charge following a July 13, 2012, accident on I-684. Her attorneys have argued that Kennedy was impaired after she mistakenly took a sleeping pill instead of her thyroid medication. Lefcourt said he expected the trial to last one week.
Meanwhile, Lefcourt said on Thursday he made a motion with acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary to dismiss the case.
“Nobody takes sleeping pills to go to the gym,” Lefcourt said.
Kennedy’s attorneys unsuccessfully filed the same motion earlier in North Castle town court.
The trial was moved from Armonk to White Plains because state Supreme Court Justice Alan Scheinkman ruled there was not adequate space in the courtroom at North Castle Town Hall to conduct a jury trial that is likely to generate the intense media and public interest.
