NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — In day four of the George Pino trial, jurors took a field trip to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission facility in North Miami on Thursday to get a look at the boat involved in the crash that has the South Florida real estate mogul facing possible prison time.
Pino, 55, is facing manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in the death of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.
Prosecutors accuse Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of a 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig.
His defense team counters that the crash was merely an accident.
On Thursday, jurors visiting the FWC facility, escorted by deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, got a detailed look at the boat in question and could even board it to better understand the passenger positions of the girls on the day of the accident and where Pino was standing.
The jury members were able to see the exact location and the extent of the damage, giving them a different perspective from the videos and pictures they had seen in court court.
The field trip took about 40 minutes. They then went back to the courthouse after a lunch break with proceedings set to resume later in the afternoon.
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