SKETCHES OF COURT: Brooklyn jury awards $340K to injured livery driver
In this courtroom sketch, Hon. Dawn Jimenez-Salta listens while plaintiff’s attorney Douglas Shayne (standing), of the law firm Khavinson & Associates, conducts a cross-examination of the defendant in the motor vehicle accident summary jury trial of Aureliano Tlatelpa v. Rachel Roth.
To Shayne’s right is his associate Matthew Macaulay (seated center). Seated at far right is defendant’s attorney John A. Canton, of the law firm McCarthy & Associates.
The plaintiff, a car service driver with a Class E license, was at the wheel when his vehicle was impacted by the defendant’s car as she made a left turn in the midnight hours of March 28, 2012. The accident occurred at the intersection of Caton and MacDonald avenues in Brooklyn.