DUI Debacle

In 2011, Julian Pellegrino pleaded guilty to DUI involving serious bodily injury to Mark Costa in Chicopee, Mass., and was sentenced to serve 18 months in jail, but that didn’t deter Pellegrino from filing a lawsuit in December, demanding $1.1 million for Costa’s somehow causing his car to collide with Pellegrino’s. Pellegrino (with a broken neck) was actually more seriously injured than Costa, who sued back, for nearly $200,000. In 2010, while Pellegrino awaited disposition of the case with Costa, he pleaded guilty to another DUI.