CONCORD, N.H. — A choose has ordered the deportation of a business truck driver from Ukraine who was taken into custody by immigration authorities final 12 months shortly after he was acquitted of inflicting the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 27, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, had a sequence of immigration hearings after he was acquitted in August on seven counts of manslaughter, seven counts of negligent murder and one depend of reckless conduct. The fees stemmed from a June 21, 2019 crash in Randolph, New Hampshire, that killed seven members of the Jarheads Motorbike Membership, a company of Marine Corps veterans and their spouses.
Zhukovskyy’s lawyer has requested for asylum for his consumer, who got here to the U.S. when he was 10 years outdated. His attorneys say he has everlasting residency standing. Nonetheless, on Feb. 3, the immigration choose ordered Zhukovskyy’s removing, in response to the Government Workplace for Immigration Evaluation.
Zhukovskyy, who has been held in Pennsylvania, has till March 8 to file an attraction.
“I am not going to have the ability to offer you any feedback on the file,” his lawyer, Kevin Murphy, advised The Related Press on Thursday. Zhukovskyy’s household declined to remark.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered Zhukovskyy to be detained after the 2019 crash, and he was picked up following the decision in New Hampshire on Aug. 9. He had been jailed in New Hampshire between the time of the crash and the decision.
Motorcyclists from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island died within the accident.
Prosecutors argued that Zhukovskyy — who had taken heroin, fentanyl and cocaine earlier on the day of the crash — repeatedly swerved backwards and forwards earlier than the collision and advised police he induced it. However a choose dismissed eight costs associated as to if he was impaired, and his attorneys blamed the lead biker, Albert “Woody” Mazza Jr., saying he was drunk and never wanting the place he was going when he misplaced management of his bike and slid in entrance of Zhukovskyy’s truck.
“At this time limit and with every thing that occurred the best way it did, it’s actually superficial to me,” Manny Ribeiro, a former Jarheads member who was injured within the crash, mentioned of the deportation order. “Within the huge image, it’s miniscule.”
In response to ICE, Zhukovskyy was beforehand convicted of drug possession, driving with a suspended license, furnishing false info and larceny.
It was unclear underneath what circumstances he might be despatched again to Ukraine, on condition that the nation is a conflict zone. Particulars of the choose’s choice weren’t made public.
In March 2022, ICE paused repatriation flights to Ukraine after the nation was attacked by Russia. The U.S. Division of Homeland Safety additionally introduced it was authorizing Ukrainians for Non permanent Protected Standing for 18 months.
The designation “is predicated on each ongoing armed battle and extraordinary and non permanent situations in Ukraine that stop Ukrainian nationals, and people of no nationality who final habitually resided in Ukraine, from returning to Ukraine safely,” the division mentioned.
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Related Press reporter Michael Casey contributed to this story.
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