Pittsfield Man Found Guilty Of Motor Vehicle Homicide

Staff Reports 03:35PM / Thursday November 17, 2011

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - A jury found a city man guilty of motor vehicle homicide while under the influence of alcohol on Thursday.

Frank Zuber, 55, was sentenced by Judge John Agostini to three to five years in state prison at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction as the result of a December 7, 2010 accident in Pittsfield that killed 85-year-old Joseph Donahue.

The jury deliberated for about an hour and a half before finding returning the verdict.

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