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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — The jury reached a verdict in the trial of a driver who hit and killed two University of Miami students.
The jury chose to award nearly $8.6 million to both sets of parents for economic damages and pain and suffering. They also found the driver Milady Pequeno was 95 percent to blame and the students were 5 percent to blame.
On Wednesday morning, the jury resumed deliberations. They asked for and received a calculator. It was unclear why they had asked for it but they heard testimony during the trial about the expected incomes of the students had they lived, and the life expectancy of the parents, which could have been considered for pain and suffering damages.
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Just a day before, the attorneys for the parents of the students killed were asking the jury to award them approximately $2 million in economic damages, about a million dollars each, but asked for each set of parents to be awarded five to $7 million for their pain and suffering.
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The jury began deliberating just after 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
Pequeno was being sued for negligence.
Pequeno’s Porsche slammed into Ying Chen, 27, and Hau Liu, 26, as they crossed Kendall Drive at an intersection just east of Dixie Highway on the evening of October 16, 2014. Police said Pequeno sped off after the incident.
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In her testimony during the trial , Pequeno was unable to explain why she did not stop. She had also argued she did not see the students since her view was obscured by an SUV.
