It seemed to confirm Vince Cerrato's suspicions, but it could have no impact on the outcome of the investigation of his wife's death. Szwez is pleading not guilty, his lawyer said. Anne Marie Cerrato said that if she hadn't called the prosecutors involved in Szwez's second case, they never would have known about the accident that killed her mother. The two sides of the courthouse rarely talk to each other. The law is strange.
Life is cheap.
For the DUI and other offenses of the second incident, he could go to jail, lose his license for a while. David McCarter of the FHP in Pinellas said deaths like Mrs. Cerrato's make him wish the law required automatic testing of drivers in fatal accidents. But that's about all FHP will say of its conduct. They and prosecutors think this case is shut. Teresa Cerrato was buried wearing her St. Anne medal.