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$5 Million Judgment Entered In
Drunk Driving Case For Parks & Crump
By Adner Marcelin
Parks & Crump, LLC
Tallahassee, Florida
apprehended by authorities a short
distance from the scene.
Crosby was charged with
vehicular manslaughter and leaving
On Monday, December 28, 2009, a
the scene of an accident involving
judgment of $5 million dollar was
death. He pled guilty to the charges
entered in the 2nd Judicial Circuit
and is now serving a 12 year sentence
Court in Gadsden County for the
at the Wakulla Work Camp. In
family of Shanesia Cox. While the
addition, he has 10 years probation and
7 year old was playing in her “Cox’s Family members along with his license is revoked for life.
their attorney, Benjamin Crump,
grandmother’s yard with her two
The judgment was entered
leaving the Gadsden County
sisters and cousin, she was killed by
pursuant
to an agreement on behalf of
Courthouse after the criminal
Bryce Crosby, who was 19 years
the parties, thus preventing the
proceedings.”
old at the time. Florida Highway
necessity of a trial. “I feel the main
Pictured (Back to Front, Left to
Patrol concluded that Crosby’s
reason the Cox family accepted a
Right): Jojuanna Asbury, Erica
blood alcohol level was almost Jordan, Kenyatta Jackson, Regina settlement in this matter was to prevent
three times the legal limit at the
Shanesia Cox’s 6 years old and 9 years
Jackson, Attorney Benjamin
Crump, and Diamond Cox (sister). old siblings from having to testify
time of the accident.
The accident occurred when
about this horrible tragedy. Every night
Crosby left the road traveling several hundred feet those little girls have to go to bed with the memory of
across three yards hitting several objects, killing seeing their sister’s face ran over by a drunk driver. No
Shanesia Cox, and injuring the other girls. After hitting one wanted them to relive the nightmare in a
Cox, Crosby never stopped. He continued to drive back courtroom,” said Attorney Benjamin L. Crump,
onto the roadway with flattened tires but was representing the family along with Don Hinkle.