The trial date of Doral real estate broker George Pino — the operator of a boat that crashed in Biscayne Bay and killed a teen girl and severely injured her classmate in 2022 — will start next summer, barring something “extraordinary and unforeseeable,” the judge said in a Friday morning hearing.
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez urged prosecutors and defense attorneys to be prepared for Pino’s trial to start on June 1, 2026. Tinker Mendez indicated that she wants to avoid any changes to the trial date.
Pino, 54, is charged with manslaughter and vessel homicide, a nearly identical second-degree felony charge that also carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty to both charges.
Both charges stem from the death of 17-year-old Luciana “Lucy” Fernandez, who was trapped under Pino’s 29-foot boat when he slammed into a concrete channel marker in Biscayne Bay on Sept. 4, 2022, the Sunday night of Labor Day weekend. He and his wife were celebrating their daughter’s 18th birthday and had taken 11 of her girlfriends on the boat for a day at Elliott Key…