For a second time in three months, John Goodman has lost his battle to have his DUI manslaughter conviction thrown out because prosecutors got rid of the Bentley he was driving in the 2010 crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson.

In a two-page opinion, the 4th District Court of Appeal refused to reconsider the ruling it made in July when it rejected Goodman’s claims that he was hamstrung during his second trial to persuade jurors that the Bentley malfunctioned because the luxury car wasn’t available for jurors to see or for his experts to analyze.

In its opinion, the West Palm Beach-based appeals court noted that Goodman, founder of the Wellington Polo Club, was convicted in 2012 of the same charge when the Bentley was available. After that conviction and 16-year prison sentence were thrown out because of jury misconduct, Assistant State Attorney Ellen Roberts allowed the car to be sold at auction before Goodman was retried in 2014.

Still, the appeals court said the result — both with and without the Bentley — were the same. Goodman, 54, was again convicted and handed a 16-year prison sentence.

"One could question whether the Bentley had exculpatory value, as the jury found (Goodman) guilty beyond a reasonable doubt at the first trial when all the expert’s testimony and the Bentley were presented," it wrote. "No other case has this unique circumstance of having a first trial at which the defendant was convicted even with the presentation of the evidence now alleged to be materially exculpatory."

Further, it said, during the second trial jurors received plenty of information about the condition of the Bentley when it crashed into the Hyundai that Wilson was driving. Goodman’s heavier car shoved Wilson’s Hyundai into a Wellington canal where the recent engineering graduate drowned. Jurors were shown at least 54 photos of the Bentley and experts again testified that it malfunctioned, the court wrote.

Goodman, who is being held at Wakulla Correctional Institution near Tallahassee, could appeal the decision. Further, the Florida Supreme Court is now considering his claims that the way his blood was drawn artificially elevated his blood-alcohol level. Hours after the crash, it was twice the level at which Florida drivers are considered impaired.