MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- A jury said a Brooklyn man who plowed a car into a tree on Long Island while high on marijuana is guilty of killing his uncle in the crash.
Thirty-year-old driver Salih Townsley faces a maximum of 5 to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on a manslaughter conviction in Mineola on June 12.
A 4-year-old girl was also seriously injured in the Aug. 19 crash on the Southern Parkway near Malverne that claimed the life of Steven Stanley. The girl, the daughter of Townsley's girlfriend, was ejected from the car. She suffered fractures and bleeding to her brain.
Townsley's attorney said jurors may have been influenced by news coverage of a recent suspected drunken driving accident that left a police officer severly injured.
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