LINDEN -- A former city police officer charged in the crash that killed a fellow officer and another man, may hear on Thursday if the judge will throw out results of a blood test showing he was drunk at the time of the crash in Staten Island.

Pedro Abad, who faces multiple charges for the March 20, 2015 crash, when he was driving home from a strip club and turned the wrong way on Westshore Expressway shortly before 5 a.m., will appear before Richmond Supreme Court Judge Stephen Rooney for the latest hearing in the case.

Abad's attorney, Mario Gallucci, filed a motion to suppress results of a test on his client's blood after the crash, arguing there was not probable cause for the test. The test indicated Abad had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit.

In July, Gallucci revealed that minutes after the crash -- in which Abad collided nearly head-on into a truck -- the first officer arriving at the scene noted in his report that there was no odor of alcohol coming from Abad. Gallucci argued there is insufficient reason for police to take a sample of his blood to test for alcohol.

In a separate issue, Gallucci is also awaiting results of blood tests to determine if dancers at the strip club Curves had secretly given Abad the drug GHB, the so-called date rape drug. Gallucci argued that dancers at other strip clubs have been charged with giving men the drug so that they would spend more money and give larger tips.

The testing for GHB has been delayed for months over questions of how large a blood sample is needed for the examination and how much would be left for other testing.

Both Gallucci and Staten Island Assistant District Attorney Mark Palladino were to file briefs about Gallucci's motion to suppress the blood tests prior to the hearing Thursday.

Late on March 19, 2015, Abad and three other men, fellow Linden officers Frank Viggiano and Patrik Kudlac, and Linden resident Joseph Rodriguez, went to a few bars before driving to the Staten Island strip club. Shortly before 5 a.m., Abad was driving home when he turned the wrong way on the Expressway and crashed into the truck.

Viggiano and Rodriguez were killed. Abad and Kudlac were critically injured, but both recovered. Kudlac had planned to return to the police force, but early last month resigned. Linden police suspended Abad after he was indicted for the charges stemming from the crash. The department fired Abad last year after he was unable to return to work because of his injuries.

Abad faces a 27-count indictment that includes multiple counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and manslaughter. Abad has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Abad was in eight accidents prior to the wrong-way crash, including two where he was charged with drunk driving. He pleaded guilty to one of those incidents in 2013, after a police dashcam captured him failing a field sobriety test.

The 2011 DUI charge, in which Abad crashed into the wall of a supermarket, was dismissed after a dispute over evidence. An attorney representing Kudlac has filed a tort claim notice over the handling of that charge.

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