Driver in Deadly Drunken Crash That Killed Nurse Gets 7 Years: Court Supervision

By Joseph Hosey

Nearly a year ago, Matthew Senica of Orland Park ran a red light and crashed into a car driven by a nurse on her way to work at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

The nurse, 51-year-old Heidi Roseen of Lockport, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and pronounced dead at the hospital where she worked.

After almost a full year of court hearings, Senica, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated drunken driving. He took a seven year prison sentence but has already served 324 days of it in the Cook County jail.

Here's what else was going on in the area's courthouses:

• The attorney for alleged teenage double-murderer Mohammad Salahat presented a proposal to a prosecutor in a sealed envelope. The prosecutor did not read or discuss the proposal during last week's court hearing, or even open the envelope.
• Negotiations between the attorney for Kevin Skaritka and prosecutors continued as the Orland Park man's sex crime cases were scheduled to return to court later this month.
• The grandson of Will County Board Republican Chairman Jim Moustis made his first court appearance for a felony theft case. A public defender was appointed to represent the grandson, Nicholas Moustis.
• Even though a Will County judge ordered the case files for two young men and two young women charged with a brutal double murder on Joliet's Hickory Street to be re-opened, the files remained sealed for nearly another week.
• The attorney for a Burr Ridge college student charged with killing a man while driving drugged up and drunk said hereceived some discovery evidence but is waiting on more.
• Two days after their co-defendant's attorney made a proposalin a Palos Township double murder case, the three other alleged killers appeared at the Bridgeview courthouse with their own lawyers.
• A retiree filed a lawsuit against a Plainfield couple he says scammed him out of $50,000 on a real estate deal.
• A Joliet white supremacist was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for torching a black family's home.
• The Will County judge presiding over the case of a Lemont man charged with punching and ultimately killing a Romeoville man at the culmination of an escalating traffic dispute said a defense attorney failed to provide her with specific information on the victim's alleged history of "road rages."