Hi gang, Rick here at Bayliner Boats. We can't stress enough here at about boating safety. A 21-year-old Cicero man accused of causing an 85-year-old fisherman's death this summer on Oneida Lake was in Oswego County Court this morning.
Brad Bouthillier stood quietly next to his lawyer, who questioned a pre-plea investigation report filed by the Onondaga County Probation Department.
Defense lawyer Sal Piemonte said the report contained several inaccurate statements. Piemonte then handed Oswego County Court Judge Walter Hafner Jr. his own report.
Hafner described the probation department's report as "disturbing." The judge said the report included details of how Bouthillier's girlfriend was sitting on his lap.
"They start kissing and someone screams," the judge read from the report. "There's another vessel sitting in the water and that other vessel is hit."
Bouthillier's 20-foot Starcraft hit the front of John C. Kowalewski's 19-foot Bayliner just north of Frenchman's Island on Oneida Lake sometime after 5:30 p.m. Aug. 9, state police said. A boater found Kowalewski's boat adrift, with his body inside, about 2 1/2 hours later.
"Although everyone (on Bouthillier's boat) has a cell phone, no one chooses to call anyone," Hafner said, reading from the pre-plea report. "The defendant and all six of occupants go back to shore, load the boat up and later that night, a couple of the females on the boat call the police."
Hafner said he would review the "very thick report" Piemonte gave him.
After court, neither Piemonte nor District Attorney Donald Dodd would say what the inaccuracies are in the probation report.
Bouthillier, of Thompson Road, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal navigation accident, both felonies. He's also facing first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child, a misdemeanor that accuses him of giving alcohol to a 19-year-old passenger.
Thanks to The Post-Standard for this.
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