A Sanford man who was charged with felony hit and run after a car accident which killed a 16 year old in 2023 was found guilty of a lesser charge related to the case in Lee County Superior Court after a three day trial this week.
Josue Palacios of Sanford was found guilty of misdemeanor counts of hit and run, failing to report an accident and not having an operator’s license. He had originally been charged with a felony count of hit and run related to the accident, however the jury only found him guilty of the lesser included misdemeanor hit and run count.
The accident occurred on June 3, 2023. Authorities at the time didn’t release the child’s name due to their age.
Palacios was charged by the North Carolina Highway Patrol after the accident, which occurred in the day’s predawn hours near the intersection of Firetower Road and N.C. Highway 78. Palacios, who left the scene and was arrested later the same day, told the Highway Patrol at the time that he thought he’d hit a deer.
Palacios was sentenced to 45 days in the Lee County Jail for the misdemeanor convictions. Assistant District Attorney Byron Beasley prosecuted, and Palacios was represented by defense attorney Chas Post.
TRAVESTY of justice!
Unless you were in the courtroom and heard ALL of the testimony, I’m not sure how you can make your assumption.
Weak ass District Attorney.
Even if it was thought to be a deer , HE KILLED A INNOCENT CHILD and LEFT, if it was an entire body you hit and killed then no way you didn’t realize that was an animal. On top of that driving without the correct license while it happened like get this man OFF the street for life.
Weak ass liberal jury
The post law firm is skilled and competent enough to do their jobs correctly, so do not blame them. That is why they are so desired and sought after. Blame the obscenely low IQ levels of the jurors. No drivers license. No compassion or merciful enough mentally to AT LEAST check and see if the injured can be helped, regardless of human life or other form of life. Driving without the lawful ability to do so – is reckless endangerment of human safety and life, PERIOD. Yet, the puppets on a string dance once again by those intellectually superior. The future of this nation is sad. Average IQ when I was a child was 120-130. Today it is 90-95. Those who were our idiotic failures are now making decisions as jurors. Little wonder it is, that our nation is the sewer of lunacy it has become!
Out of curiosity, why wasn’t he charged with felony criminal negligence and assault with a deadly weapon..What he did without a lawful right to drive – is endangering the public as a whole. People who do this are a menace to society. Why do we allow these kinds of idiots nonstop abiity to do as they please, and to allow them to endanger innocent lives.
Yes, agreed, most jurors do not want to serve , so they really don’t care , they just want to go home
They should stand him in the road and let the family hit him with a car.. THAT is justice