Reconstruction Report For Deadly Drunken 2010 Crash to be Reviewed

An expert witness' reconstruction report on the New Year's 2010 crash that claimed the life of a 20-year-old New Lenox woman must be reviewed by a lawyer before a judge will decide whether to allow it at trial.

But that lawyer, Joseph Casciato, is out of the country, his co-counsel, Jeffrey Aprati, said during a Wednesday morning hearing at the Markham courthouse.

Cook County Judge Frank Zelezinski noted he has a busy schedule of upcoming trials and pushed the aggravated driving under the influence case against 25-year-old Nicholas Sord back to July 9.

Sord, a resident of Orland Park, is free on bond.

"Even though the case is getting very old, I do know there are jury trials set," Zelezinski said.

Sord's blood-alcohol content was allegedly almost three times the legal when he lost control of his sport utility vehicle and crashed near 147th Street and Oak Park Avenue, killing Lincoln-Way Central High School graduate Jessica Mejia.

Sord's attorneys contend Mejia caused the accident. Prosecutors are trying to bar testimony from the expert witness who penned the reconstruction report.

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