What Caruso’s passengers have to say may not be important. Open containers combined with a failed breath test and a fatality are usually enough to sway a jury to do the right thing.

Caruso not only destroyed the family of those he hit. He ruined his own family too. Unless they turn their back on him and let him get a public defender, they will spend all of their money (during the worst financial times we’ve seen in many decades) to defend him. They will end up broke, broken, and broken-hearted.

If he doesn’t feel remorse for his direct victims, then hopefully he will fell remorse for destroying his own family.