Somerset Woman Loses Appeal of DWI-Related Death Conviction

A Somerset woman’s appeal of her conviction for a DWI-related death in 2007 was rejected Nov. 12 by a three-member state Appellate Court panel.

In its decision, the panel rejected arguments made by Kimberly Green that the trial court judge erred in not letting her present a defense expert, in allowing into evidence a recording made of her in the back of a police patrol car after the accident, in allowing what she called an improper summation by the prosecution and in giving Green a “manifestly excessive and punitive sentence.”