Amy Locane-Bovenizer has already served two and a half years in prison for the fatal crash.
SOMERVILLE -- Former "Melrose Place" actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer, who has already served two-and-a-half years in prison for a drunken crash that killed a Montgomery woman in 2010, is scheduled to be resentenced Friday.
In August, the state's Appellate Division ruled that the leniency granted by state Superior Court Judge Robert B. Reed in sentencing Locane-Bovenizer in the crash that killed Helene Seeman lacked enough explanation.
Reed has since admitted he erred in sentencing Locane-Bovenizer, saying she should have served an additional six months. However, the judge also said he would considered Locane-Bovenizer's post-conviction behavior in resentencing her.
Locane-Bovenizer, 44, was released from prison on parole in June 2015. At the time she was convicted of vehicular homicide and assault by auto, she was sentenced to three years for each charge to run concurrently.
Reed downgraded Locane-Bovenizer's conviction from a second- to a third-degree offense. He cited the hardship the actress' incarceration would have on her two young children, including a then-4-year-old with Crohn's disease, as the reason for handing down a lesser sentence.
The sentence outraged Seeman's family, who accused Reed of giving Locane-Bovenizer celebrity treatment. Locane-Bovenizer could have faced five to 10 years on the second degree count.
Victim's husband wants justice
The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office appealed the sentence, saying it sent a "bewildering message" about the penalty for drunken driving.
The case was sent back to Somerset County for a new hearing for the judge "to comprehensively explain the reasons for sentence," the appeals court decision states. The appeals court took no position on the proper length of the sentence.
Locane-Bovenizer's blood-alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit on June 27, 2010, when her SUV crashed into a Mercury Milan turning into a driveway in Montgomery Township, prosecutors said. She was driving 53 mph in a 35 mph zone, prosecutors said.
Seeman, the passenger in the Milan, was killed in the crash, while her husband, Fred Seeman, who was driving, was critically injured.
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