NARRATOR: Next, we're in Tampa, Florida,
for a Zoom court hearing.
All right.
So we're here on State of Florida
versus Jennifer Carvajal.
NARRATOR: The 24-year-old is facing serious charges,
including DUI manslaughter, after a passenger in her car
was killed and two others severely injured
in a high speed car accident.
This police dash cam video shows the car
driven by Carvajal traveling at 111 miles per hour
on a Florida highway.
After clocking her speed, the officer hits the lights
and begins the pursuit.
Down the freeway he catches up.
But as he closes in to pull Carvajal over,
she whips the car onto the shoulder
and then skids out of control.
After the car jerks to the right,
a second camera on the officer's cruiser
shows Carvajal's car speeding off the highway
and hitting an embankment, sending it airborne.
After flying over a fence, the car
crash lands into a car dealership lot,
hitting a parked truck and then a light pole.
At the scene, emergency personnel
discover the two passengers were ejected from the car.
Another was seriously injured inside.
And Jennifer Carvajal, the only one wearing a seat belt,
had just minor injuries.
Her blood alcohol level was later recorded at 0.10,
slightly above the 0.08 legal limit.
One of the passengers thrown from the car,
Carvajal's 22-year-old cousin, did not survive.
Now at the hearing, Judge Katherine Kaplan
will determine if Carvajal should continue
to be held without bond.
So Miss Carvajal, on the one count of DUI manslaughter
that still did not have a bond on it,
I'm going to grant the State's Motion for Pretrial Detention
and hold you without bond on that one count.
NARRATOR: Part of the state's recommendation
to hold Carvajal in custody may be
because this is not the first time she's faced
a DUI manslaughter charge.
The entire situation's a horrific flashback
to seven years earlier when, at 16, Carvajal pleaded no contest
to a charge of DUI manslaughter in an adult court
and faced sentencing two years later,
after she turned 18 years old.
Carvajal was sentenced to five years in prison
with an additional five years of probation--
probation that was still in effect when
the second incident occurred.
In addition to having Carvajal held without bond,
the State then makes another request.
The State is requesting that the defendant be ordered not
to make contact with either of the two living victims
or to the mother of the deceased victim
in this case, Pedro Carvajal.
And his mother is present with us today, your honor.
NARRATOR: Both Carvajal and the victim's mother
can be seen wiping away tears as the family tragedy
and no contact order is discussed.
Because it's family, obviously, some people
without any control on their own,
with good intentions, just trying to check on people,
may very well run afoul of unintentionally
violating the court order.
But it's not because of my client's directing anyone.
It is going to be part of the order from today.
So Miss Pizarro, if you'll just add it to the written order
so there's no confusion.
NARRATOR: Judge Kaplan would approve the no contact order.
Jennifer Carvajal was held without bond
and her trial is currently pending.