As the Marion County Circuit Court trial got underway Tuesday, the defense team for Lincoln Smith, the short-run truck driver charged with seven counts of manslaughter in a fatal Interstate 5 collision, unveiled their case.
Authorities have long maintained that Smith, 54, was under the influence of alcohol when his Freightliner semitruck veered into the I-5 shoulder just north of Albany, killing seven farmworkers when it crashed into the rear of a van carrying eleven of them.
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