Jaicarious Grace arrived Monday at an Orange County courtroom in a jail jumpsuit and handcuffs, expecting a judge to hand him a long prison sentence for causing a deadly crash in February 2023 that killed a young mother and maimed her girlfriend.

Instead, he listened with his head hung low as the girlfriend, Gina Mustacchio, 32, defended him and blamed an Orlando police officer, whose chase of Grace — in violation of department policy — topped 60 mph through a neighborhood a few blocks from the KIA Center. Grace’s initial crime was to run a red light.

If the officer had even just turned on his police vehicle’s lights and sirens, Delmy “Patty” Alvarez would have known to avoid the intersection at West Anderson and Parramore where the barreling Lexus RC350 driven by Grace T-boned their car

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