December 10, 2010
Court orders new trial for UNH fatal
Nashua man whose conviction for hitting and killing a fellow University of New Hampshire student has twice been reversed will be tried again, Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi said Thursday.
Kevin Whittaker, 25, was convicted in 2006 of negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an accident after his car struck and killed Richard Hegerich, a fellow student who was crossing Main Street in Durham in 2004.
Whittaker’s lawyer, Richard Lehmann of Concord, declined to comment on the case Thursday. Lehmann also represents a former Nashua man who is suing Nashua Police for prosecuting him for negligent homicide.