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Abstract: 

Martin Heidgen was going around 60 mph when he smashed his pick-up truck head-on into a wedding limousine driven by Stanley Rabinowitz. The limousine was returning two flower girls, Katie and Grace Flynn, their parents, Neil and Jennifer Flynn, and their grandparents, Chris and Denise Tangney, to their home on Long Island’s south shore. Jennifer Flynn’s sister Lisa was the bride and it had been a picture perfect wedding and a day that Katie Flynn had, only hours earlier, called “the greatest day of her life.” This article looks at the aftermath of that crash and the trial and sentencing of Heidgen. It addresses the importance of the sentencing and whether drunk driving fatalities qualify as murder.

Keywords: DUI; Long Island; Nassau County; Vehicular Crimes Bureau;

Affiliations:  1: Vehicular Crimes, Nassau County, NY, District Attorney’s Office.