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Emotional moments unfolded inside the courtroom as the verdict was read.<\/p>\n
What to KnowGeorge Pino,<\/a> a prominent South Florida developer who was driving a boat during a fatal 2022 crash near Boca Chita Key, has been found not guilty of second-degree manslaughter and vessel homicide charges for the crash that claimed the life of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez<\/a> and left another teen, Katy Puig, with permanent injuries.Pino, 55, has pleaded not guilty and maintained his innocence, calling the crash an accident.In the last two weeks of the trial, jurors heard emotional testimony from Fernandez’s father<\/a>, were shown video of Fernandez being treated,<\/a> and were taken to see the boat involved. During the first day of the trial, proceedings were paused\u00a0after Pino broke down in court<\/a>. In the following days, there was a tense exchange between a prosecutor and Pino<\/a>.<\/p>\n Find live updates from the 10th day of the trial below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC Universal, Inc. Emotional moments unfolded inside the courtroom as the verdict was read. What to KnowGeorge Pino,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1219,28,30,29,91575],"class_list":["post-316242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-george-pino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}