Gueorgui Makharadze

Gueorgui Makharadze

In January 1997, Gueorgui Makharadze, the deputy ambassador of the Republic of Georgia in Washington caused an accident that injured four people and killed a sixteen-year-old girl. He was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.15, but released from custody because he was a diplomat. The U.S. government asked the Georgian government to waive his immunity, which they did and Makharadze was tried and convicted of manslaughter by the U.S. and sentenced to seven to twenty-one years in prison. The first three years of his sentence were served in a North Carolina prison, after which he was repatriated to his home nation of Georgia to serve the remainder of his sentence.

References

*CNN.com U.S. News Archive, [http://www.cnn.com/US/9701/04/briefs.pm/diplomat.html "Diplomat involved in fatal traffic accident,"] January 4, 1997, Web posted at: 10:40 p.m. EST, taken on October 11, 2006.
*CNN.com U.S. News Archive, [http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9701/10/georgia.diplomat/index.html Georgian diplomat ordered to remain in United States,"] January 10, 1997, Web posted at: 9:00 p.m. EST, taken on October 11, 2006.
*CNN.com U.S. News Archive, [http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9701/12/georgia.diplomat/index.html "Georgian president to waive envoy's immunity,"] January 12, 1997, Web posted at: 8:30 a.m. EST (1330 GMT), taken on October 11, 2006.
*New York Times Archives, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E2DB1131F932A35752C0A96E958260 "Victim's Family Sues Georgian Diplomat"] Published January 1, 1998, taken October 11, 2006.
*New York Times Archives, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E7DB113FF935A15757C0A96E958260 "National News Briefs; Envoy Claims Immunity In Wrongful-Death Suit,"] Published April 26, 1998, taken on October 11, 2006.
*CNN.com U.S. News Archive, [http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/06/30/georgia.diplomat/ "Georgian diplomat convicted in fatal crash goes home"] June 30, 2000, Web posted at: 6:11 p.m. EDT (2211 GMT), taken on October, 11, 2006.


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