The second best paid ball player in the US Major League Baseball, Dominican pitcher Pedro Mart?nez was sentenced to pay RD$150,000 (about US$9,500) and banned from legally driving in the DR for a year. Mart?nez was also ordered to pay the legal costs of the trial. The judgment came after a six year hearing. The sentence benefits Santiago Castro Santana who cited physical injuries and moral and material losses as a consequence of the accident. Judge Ram?n Horacio Gonz?lez established that Castro Santana had made incorrect use of a street by leaving the sidewalk to await a taxi inside of the street. Pedro Mart?nez’s lawyers have appealed.
