A Virginia girl arrested within the deadly hit-and-run loss of life of scorching shot Hamptons actual property agent Sara Burack thought she’d hit a site visitors cone, her lawyer claimed throughout a Saturday morning court docket look.
Marine biologist Amanda Kempton pleaded not responsible and was launched from police custody after her household, who reside in Manorville, put up collateral in lieu of $100,000 bail, officers mentioned throughout her arraignment in Southampton City Justice Courtroom.
Kempton, 32, choked again tears as prosecutor MacDonald Drane requested the excessive bail, describing her as a flight danger who fled the scene and who had been set to return to Virginia Saturday for a marriage.
She faces seven years in jail on a felony cost of leaving the scene of a motorcar accident in which there’s a fatality.
The scientist allegedly frolicked at a tavern earlier than the Thursday incident during which she allegedly mowed down Burack in Hampton Bays, prosecutors mentioned.
Alcohol will not be thought of an element within the case, Kempton’s lawyer informed the court docket.
Burack, 40, who specialised in excessive finish properties and starred within the hit “Million Greenback Seashore Home,” was strolling within the roadway within the westbound lane carrying a pink suitcase when she was struck on Montauk Freeway.
Kempton, who beforehand labored for the Youngsters’s Museum of the East Finish in Bridgehampton, wore an orange sweatshirt and black slacks as her household sat silently within the courtroom.
The world was foggy and Kempton didn’t see the sufferer — believing as a substitute that she had hit a site visitors cone, her lawyer, William Keahon, informed the court docket.
She left the scene and went to a buddy’s residence, the place she discovered Burack’s massive, pink, wheeled suitcase lodged beneath her automobile, Keahon added.
Authorities used a license plate reader to trace Kempton’s actions and located her automobile, with a broken entrance finish, at her household’s residence, prosecutors mentioned.
Kempton and her household declined remark after the continuing.
