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Driver In Fatal Selmon Crash Waives Right To Speedy Trial

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By TOM BRENNAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 25, 2008

Updated: 11/25/2008 10:41 am

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  Cheryl Riemann

TAMPA - Cheryl Maria Riemann, facing DUI manslaughter charges in a fatal head-on crash on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway, waived her right to a speedy trial today.

Attorneys for Riemann, 25, of Ruskin, announced the move at a status conference before Circuit Judge Daniel Sleet.

Riemann is being held without bail, accused in a crash Sept. 10 that killed Jennifer O'Boyle, 24, and severely injured O'Boyle's 4-year-old daughter, Summer Moll.

Investigators say Riemann was driving the wrong way on the lower portion of the expressway just east of the 78th Street toll plaza. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the level at which Florida law presumes intoxication, investigators say.

Defense attorney Maria Pavlidis said she and co-counsel Chuck Traina have been exchanging pretrial discovery with prosecutors and soon will schedule depositions with potential witnesses.

Sleet set another status conference for Feb. 23.

Riemann huddled with her attorneys but remained silent during the hearing.

Summer Moll has undergone multiple operations and has casts on both arms, a brace on her neck, a plate in her head and pins in both legs.

Tammy Rosian, the girl's grandmother, said surgeons are expected to remove the pins next week.

Summer also needs an in-hospital rehabilitation stay of at least three weeks, Rosian said. That should begin within a month.

"She is doing pretty good," Rosian said.

Reporter Tom Brennan can be reached at (813) 259-7698 or tbrennan@tampatrib.com.

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