A Manatee County jury found a Lakewood Ranch mother guilty of manslaughter after prosecutors said she backed over and killed her 2-year-old son in the family’s driveway.
After several hours of deliberation on Wednesday, jurors convicted Brittany Geiman, 33, in the March 2024 death of her son, Maverick, following a three-day trial before Circuit Judge Frederick Mercurio at the Manatee County Judicial Center in downtown Bradenton.
Prosecutors charged Geiman with aggravated manslaughter of a child, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years, but jurors instead convicted her of the lesser offense of manslaughter, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison…