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Truck driver pleads "not guilty" in Tracy Morgan crash

2014-06-11 67 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />A Georgia truck driver accused of causing a fatal car crash on a New Jersey highway that critically injured comedian Tracy Morgan appeared in court on Wednesday (June 11).<br/> <br />He pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular homicide while driving with too little sleep.<br/> <br />Wal-Mart Stores Inc delivery driver Kevin Roper, 35, stayed silent during the arraignment in New Brunswick, New Jersey, before he was released on $50,000 bail he posted after his arrest.<br/> <br />He faces charges of death by auto and injury by auto while operating his tractor trailer without having slept "in excess of 24 hours," according to prosecutors.<br/> <br />Roper is accused of failing to see traffic slowing in front of him on the New Jersey Turnpike and slamming into the back of a limousine van carrying Morgan, best known for roles on "30 Rock" and "Saturday Night Live," and several of his associates.<br/> <br />The chain reaction crash early on Saturday involved a total of six ve

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