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MEDIA 6/27

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SENTINEL"Let the Jury Decide": Satz plays politics with a man's freedom"In a 30-minute decision Thursday, Broward County jurors rejected felony vehicular homicide and instead convicted a Parkland man of misdemeanor reckless driving for running a red light and killing a community stalwart.Blair Mrachek, 25, is now looking at a maximum 90-day jail sentence rather than 15 years in prison.Mrachek was not injured in the March 2005 afternoon crash that killed Douglas Endsley, 69, of Boca Raton, who headed Broward County's United Way for nearly two decades.Endsley, entrenched in the Broward philanthropic community, was United Way's executive director from 1976 to 1994 and previously headed up the state Division of Family Services. The Mrachek family says the case should have been settled long ago, because all along Margate police recommended a traffic infraction...continue to full post

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