Derick
Kuilan convicted of reckless driving with serious bodily injuries
MIAMI
BEACH, Fla. -
A
jury has found a former Miami Beach police officer guilty of reckless driving
with serious bodily injuries.
Derick
Kuilan was acquitted Monday on the DUI charges stemming from a 2011 crash in
which he struck and seriously injured two people while joy-riding with a woman
on a police all-terrain vehicle.
Prosecutors
claimed Kuilan was drinking while on duty when he invited a woman at a South
Beach nightclub bachelorette party to take the ATV ride.
Kuilan's
lawyer said he used bad judgment but committed no crime. Kuilan did not
testify.
His
fellow officers waited about five hours to test Kulian's blood for alcohol. His
blood-alcohol content was 0.088, above the state legal limit.
"I
don't wish for anybody to go to jail," victim Kitzie Nicanor said.
"It's just, he had to get something."
Kulian
faces up to five years in prison when he's sentenced.