Crime & Safety
Area Man Convicted Of 2nd-Degree Murder In Fatal DUI
A 46-year-old Peninsula father of two died from his injuries at Stanford after being rear-ended on Highway 101.
REDWOOD CITY, CA – A San Mateo County jury Friday found a San Jose man guilty of second-degree murder for his role in a DUI fatality on U.S. Highway 101 in Burlingame in 2016.
Luis Sale, 33, was driving drunk at the wheel of his pickup truck on southbound Highway 101 around 3:45 a.m. April 9, 2016.
He rear-ended a vehicle driven by Vivaldo Braga Veloso Jr., 46, near the San Bruno Avenue off-ramp. Veloso, of Burlingame, was transported to Stanford Hospital, but died three days later after being declared brain dead and taken off of life support. He was the father of two daughters who were 4 and 6 years old at the time of his death.
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Sale had already been convicted of felony vehicular manslaughter while under the influence of alcohol, felony drunk driving causing injury, felony driving with 0.08 percent blood-alcohol content and misdemeanor driving on a suspended license at the end of a 20 day trial.
A juror left town last week for a scheduled vacation but deliberations began again Friday with an alternate juror and they returned a guilty verdict on the second-degree murder charge.
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Defense attorney Peter Goldscheider could not immediately be reached for comment on his client's behalf.
Sale will return to court for sentencing on April 27. Prosecutors said at that time the defense plans to make a motion for a new trial.
Sale remains in custody on $1.1 million bail.
A GoFundMe campaign was launched in 2016 for the victim's family. The page is here.
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