Thursday, January 3, 2013
Patrick Doyle will begin serving sentence immediately
Patrick Doyle, the man who fatally struck and killed a Brick teenager on a skateboard in 2011, will spend the next six months in jail and lose his license for 10 years, a judge ruled Thursday night. Doyle, 55, pleaded guilty to a single count of driving while intoxicated in front of Municipal Court Judge Daniel Sahin in Brick Township municipal court. It is his third DWI conviction. In a May 11, 2011 accident, Doyle struck 19-year-old Anthony Briffa, of Brick, with his car, killing him. Briffa was riding his skateboard at the time. Doyle's attorney, William Cunningham, told Sahin that his client's blood alcohol level was found to be .081, barely over the legal limit at the time of the accident. Doyle admitted to Sahin that he had consumed …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
No new date has been set
The trial of a former township employee charged with driving while intoxicated after striking and killing a skateboarder with his vehicle has been postponed. Patrick Doyle had been scheduled to appear in Brick Township Municipal Court on Wednesday, but that appearance was delayed. After his attorney, William Cunningham, asked for a sidebar in the judge's chambers, Municipal Court Judge Daniel Sahin announced the case would be adjourned to a future date. Sahin, who was filling in for Judge Robert Lepore, said in court that the adjournment was due to questions over blood evidence in the DWI case. An evidentiary hearing will be conducted to address the defense's questions. The case stems from a May 11, 2011 accident where Doyle's vehicle …
Monday, July 16, 2012
Patrick Doyle struck township teen in 2011, faces DWI charge
The man who was under investigation in the death of a township teenager is not facing criminal charges. Patrick Doyle, 54, a former township employee, was charged with drunk driving – a motor vehicle offense in New Jersey – after striking 19-year-old Anthony Briffa with his car the night of May 11, 2011. Briffa, a student at Ocean County College, was riding his skateboard on Jordan Road when he was struck about 10 p.m. that night. Maria Briffa, Anthony's sister, told Brick Patch that a grand jury declined to indict Doyle on any criminal charges, though officials with the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office would not comment on grand jury activity, saying the information could not be publicly released. Executive Assistant Prosecutor Michael …
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Anthony Briffa's family publicly calling for 'justice' in alleged DWI case
People ask Toni Briffa a lot of questions about her son, Anthony. It pains her to be unable to answer many of them, eight months after he died when a car hit him while he was riding his skateboard on Jordan Road. "It seems that nothing's getting done," Briffa said recently, tearing up as another month has gone by without any resolution to the legal case stemming from the May 11 accident. Patrick Doyle, a 54-year-old Brick resident, is accused of driving while intoxicated at the time of the crash. Prosecutors have not announced criminal charges in the case, and the DWI case has yet to be heard in court. The slow speed of the wheels of justice have taken a toll on the family, Briffa said. "It's just been eight months of hell," she said. "I …
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Anthony Briffa, a skateboarder, was struck by Patrick Doyle's vehicle
A former employee of Brick Township is facing a number of motor vehicle-related charges following an accident that claimed the life of a township teenager on May 11. Patrick Doyle, 53, is charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, making an unsafe lane change and driving an unregistered vehicle, according to Deputy Chief Michael Mohel of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office. Doyle's vehicle, which was traveling in the southbound lane of Jordan Road, struck Anthony Briffa, 19, who was riding a skateboard. An initial investigation showed that Briffa may have been riding near the shoulder, but in a lane of traffic, at the time of the accident according to a previous statement from Capt. Thomas Hayes, also of the Ocean County …
Don Mulvey
7:44 am on Sunday, January 27, 2013
Kim is this you ? I am so sorry for the lose of your mom. Susan and I were very close friends, I only found out about this from this page. more ›