MOVIES - Feb. 17, 1988 - Los Angeles Times
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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i> John Gallagher--whose wife Anna, 28, and mother-in-law
Margaret Doherty, 60, died in a car crash involving actor Matthew Broderick in Northern Ireland last year--Tuesday called the star’s $175 fine for reckless driving “a travesty of justice.”
Gallagher said he found it “incredible” that Northern Ireland’s director of public prosecutions agreed to drop a more serious charge of causing death by careless driving. “I am very angry. I
believe there has been a travesty of justice--what happened has been equated to a minor motoring offense,” Gallagher said. The actor was fined Monday by Enniskillen magistrate Robert Porter
after pleading guilty, through his attorney, to the reduced charge of reckless driving. MORE TO READ