The defense lawyer for a convicted drunken driver whose blood-alcohol content was more than four times New York’s legal limit prior to a fatal head-on collision in Lloyd has been set up for a reduction of his second-degree murder conviction.

An appellate court in Albany late last week lowered Ryan B. Williams’ July 2019 conviction to second-degree manslaughter, after it said prosecutors in Ulster County failed to prove the case met the standard for depraved indifference, a show of utter disregard, to human life.

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