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STUDIOS IN BOSTON.
WBZ NEWS AT 10:00 STARTS RIGHT
NOW.
.
WE GO FIRST TO NEW CHARGES
IN THAT CRASH THAT KILLED A
STATE TROOPER.
DAVID WAS INDICTED TODAY IN A
CRASH THAT KILLED TROOPER
THOMAS CLARDY, TROOPERS SAY HE
NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEENBEHIND
THE WHEEL BECAUSE HE WAS HIGH
ON MARIJUANA.
WBZ IS LIVE OUTSIDE THE
WORCESTER COURTHOUSE WHERE THE
MAN WAS ARRAIGNED EARLIER
TODAY.
Reporter: DAVID GAGUNA HAS A
VALID PRESCRIPTION FOR MEDICAL
MARIJUANA, HE BROUGHT FOUR
MARIJUANA CIGARETTES AN HOUR
BEFORE THE CRASH AND THAT
APPEARS TO BE THE CORNERSTONE
OF THE CASE.
WITH HIS BROKEN ARM STILL ON
THE MEND, PROSECUTORS BOOSTED
THE CHARGES AGAINST DAVID
JAGUNA TO MANSLAUGHTER AND
MOTOR VEHICLE HOMICIDE.
HE HAS NO MEMORY HOW THE
ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
IT WAS MARCH 16th WHEN HIS
NISSAN WENT ACROSS THE MASS
PIKE AND KILLED TROOPER THOMAS
CLARDY AS HE SAT IN HIS CAR
WRITING UP A TRAFFIC STOP.
THAT SPEED WAS ESTIMATED AT
81 MILES PER HOUR . BELIEVE HE
SMOKED MEDICAL MARIJUANA BEFORE
THE WRECK, NEGLIGENCE THAT
CAUSED THE TROOPERS DEATH.
THIS IS THE RESULT OF FACTS
IN EVIDENCE, NOT EMOTION.
HE ABSOLUTELY DENIES THAT HE
WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ANY
DRUGS.
BUT PROSECUTORS SAY THEY HAVE
THE BLOOD TEST TO PROVE ITFUL
ALSO GOT A FACEBOOK POST FROM
THE DAY BEFORE SAYING HIS
MEDICATION WASN'T WORKING AND
COULDN'T SLEEP.
INVESTIGATORS FOUND NO EVIDENCE
HE EVER HIT THE BREAK BUT
DOWNTOWN THINK HE TOOK AIM ON
TROOPER CLARDY.
I KNOW THAT RUMOR IS OUT
THERE WE DO NOT HAVE ANY
EVIDENCE THIS WAS AN
INTENTIONAL ACT.
THE JUDGE ORDERED NJUGUNA,
AND SAYING HE WAS REMORSEFUL
AND DISTRAUGHT.
HE INDICATED HE PRAYS ABOUT
IT OFTEN.
TROOPER CLARDY HAD NO