A Long Island woman whose defense in a drunken-driving case highlighted errors in the Nassau County crime lab was sentenced yesterday after an appellate court struck down her post-conviction challenge. Nassau County Court Judge George Peck (See Profile) sentenced Erin Marino to time served, five years of probation and a one-year revocation of her driver’s license following a reinstated guilty verdict for charges including first-degree vehicular assault.
Following a bench trial, Marino was convicted for a June 2009 accident. While waiting to make bail in the case, she spent 20 days in jail. But as Marino awaited sentencing, Peck in 2011 granted a motion for a retrial, citing revelations of “testing misfeasance” at the lab, which was closed down a month earlier by county authorities (NYLJ, March 8, 2011). Peck’s ruling was considered the first to examine the legal consequences of the lab’s problems.
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