FL v. George Pino

Florida v. George Pino, Case Background

On Labor Day weekend 2022, George Pino's boat slammed into a concrete channel marker on Biscayne Bay. Seventeen year old Lucy Fernandez died and her classmate suffered a catastrophic brain injury. The agency that investigated never tested the man at the wheel for alcohol, ruled it a non factor within days, and for nearly a year he faced only misdemeanors. It took a newspaper, not the police, to turn a dead teenager into a felony case. Before you watch a minute of testimony, read the full background on how this reached a jury and the question twelve people now have to answer.