TRENTON, N.J.—An actress who appeared in the 1990s prime-time soap opera “Melrose Place” has lost a bid to have her sentence in a 2010 fatal auto crash reduced.
An appeals court in New Jersey rejected Amy Locane’s arguments in a ruling published Tuesday.
Locane was convicted on vehicular manslaughter and other counts for the crash that killed 60-year-old Helene Seeman and severely injured Seeman’s husband, Fred. While she wasn’t charged with drunk driving, a state expert testified Locane’s blood alcohol level was likely about three times the legal limit and that she was driving roughly 53 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone at the time of the crash in Montgomery Township, near Princeton.
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