A Tampa DUI trial unlike any other is underway in a Hillsborough County courtroom as an alleged drunk driver who never hit anyone is facing felony DUI charges for manslaughter. The case is attracting national attention because there is already a woman in jail serving time for DUI manslaughter for killing the same man who the current driver is on trial for killing. Confused? The jury may be too.
Amir Sarhaddi was driving on I-75 following Guavaween in 2007. He noticed a flipped Jeep and pulled off the highway to help. While doing his good deed a drunk driver ran into both Sarhaddi and the car involved in the accident killing Sarhaddi. Easy enough right? The driver should be in jail serving a long DUI jail sentence for killing the Good Samaritan. That driver already has been sentenced. This trial is aimed at putting the original driver who was involved in the first accident in jail for DUI manslaughter since that driver was allegedly drunk as well.
