Lawyer seeks release of woman accused in fatal wrong-way I-75 crash

Counsel for a Naples woman accused in the wrong-way crash that killed a senior citizen on Interstate 75 is asking the presiding judge to reconsider her ruling to hold the driver without bond.

Genise Taylor, 24, faces charges of DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide, DUI causing property damage and reckless driving causing damage to property or another. The March 18 crash killed 96-year-old Arthur Ward Gilbert, of Naples.

About two months after Collier County Judge Deborah Cunningham denied bond during a pretrial detention hearing, Taylor’s attorney, Joshua Faett, on May 20 filed a motion for reconsideration…

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