Binghamton Woman Found Guilty Of Vehicular Manslaughter

The Binghamton woman on trial for vehicular manslaughter following a triple-fatal crash in 2011 has been found guilty. 25-year-old Jaclyn Wesley was accused of driving with a blood alcohol content of .13 percent when her vehicle veered off of Interstate 88 in May of 2011, and plunged into the Chenango River. Wesley’s three passengers, 25-year-old Robert Moorehead of Port Crane, and 45-year-old Robert Marshall and 39-year-old Carri Michalski, both of Binghamton, were killed. Broome County Judge Joseph Cawley issued the guilty verdict Tuesday morning. Cawley presided over a non-jury trial in the case and heard the case’s closing arguments last week. Wesley and her passengers had left the Fireside Inn in Port Crane on the night of the crash. Wesley told police that the weather was rainy and foggy the night of the crash and that she tried to pass a car and hit a barrier along the passing lane, causing the accident. After the vehicle fell about ten feet into the river, Wesley was able to swim to shore, while Marshall and Moorehead were found in the submerged vehicle. Michalski’s body was found two weeks later in debris along a bridge pier downstream from the crash.