Drunk Driving Suspect Resisted Test, CHP Says
A Newhall woman on trial for allegedly killing a motorcyclist while driving drunk had to be held down by four officers and a jail nurse in order to test her blood-alcohol level after the accident, a California Highway Patrol officer testified Thursday.
Patricia Lee Giunta, who has a history of five other drunk driving arrests and one conviction, also struggled with officers when she was arrested after the crash, CHP Officer Frank Lewis testified at Giunta’s trial on a charge of vehicular manslaughter.
Giunta’s blood-alcohol content was 0.29%--more than three times the level at which a motorist is considered legally drunk, Lewis said. The accident on the Golden State Freeway in Sun Valley on Oct. 4, 1989, killed David Jaggs, 24, of Windsor, Ont., and seriously injured his wife of one month, Janine, 21.
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