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Illegal immigrant found guilty of murder in fatal N.C. crash
The Associated Press

SALISBURY, N.C. --An illegal immigrant who drove drunk in Rowan County has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a pregnant woman.

A jury handed down the verdict for Rigo Verto Guillen-Martinez, who federal investigators have said is in the U.S. illegally from El Salvador.

Police have said he had a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit when he slammed into 20-year-old Leeanna Newman's Saturn Feb. 6 in Landis. Newman and her unborn baby died a short time later. Her 21-month-old daughter was in a car seat and suffered minor injuries.

Guillen-Martinez's lawyer had argued that his client couldn't be guilty of murder because there was no malice in his actions.

Guillen-Martinez will be sentenced Thursday. He could receive up to 30 years in prison.