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New law means 'the party's over,' says dad of alleged DWI victim
Quick ReadLeandra's Law, named after a NYC 11-year-old killed by an alleged drunk driver in October, went into effect Friday.
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Lenny Rosado's 11-year-old daughter was killed in an alleged DWI crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway. (Nov. 13, 2009)
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Driver charged with DWI, killing girl
Denna Cohen, a Coram mother whose daughter was killed by a drunken driver 20 years ago, calls Lenny Rosado her hero. So does Maureen McCormick, chief of the Nassau County district attorney's vehicular crimes bureau.
But Rosado said Thursday his work on behalf of the state's new Child Passenger Protection Act - also called Leandra's Law, after his only child, who was killed in an alleged drunken...
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