Xinos was sentenced to seven years in prison for drunk driving, vehicular manslaughter, and fleeing the scene of an accident after a hit-and-run in 2006 that killed a 15-year-old boy.

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Though, in one recent case, a court threw out the black box evidence used against a California man to convict him of vehicular manslaughter because the police pulled the data from the black box of his SUV without getting a warrant first.

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