A truck driver involved in an accident that severely injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed one of his friends, could face up to thirty years in jail after he was charged with manslaughter.
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Roper’s indictment comes a week after a judge refused to throw out criminal charges after David Glassman, Roper’s attorney, claimed his client is unable to get a fair trial because of negative publicity surrounding Morgan’s federal lawsuit against Wal-Mart.
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He will be charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter, second-degree vehicular homicide and third-degree aggravated assault.
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Roper was not in court on Wednesday to hear the grand jury’s decision, however. He was not in court Wednesday, and an arraignment will be scheduled at a later date, said a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office.
A Walmart truck driven by Roper rear-ended the limo van carrying Morgan, fellow comedian James McNair and five others on the New Jersey Turnpike shortly before 1 a.m. June 7, 2014.
He’s now preparing to embark on a national comedy tour, kicking off the Tracy Morgan: Picking Up the Pieces tour on February 5.
An NTSB investigation concluded in August that Roper hadn’t slept in the 28 hours before the crash, a finding Glassman has disputed.
He did not speak publicly about the accident until nearly a year after it happened, in an appearance on NBC’s Today Show in June, where he said he had been in low spirits and feared he could never be amusing again.
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Roper drove 12 hours to work before starting his 14-hour shift, which likely caused the crash. It also found that the injuries may have been even more critical because none of the passengers in the limo were wearing seat belts.
