{"id":31289,"date":"2019-03-22T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/22\/case-ends-against-elderly-navy-vet-who-ran-over-a-pedestrian-on-san-diego-base\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:22:29","slug":"case-ends-against-elderly-navy-vet-who-ran-over-a-pedestrian-on-san-diego-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/03\/22\/case-ends-against-elderly-navy-vet-who-ran-over-a-pedestrian-on-san-diego-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Case ends against elderly Navy vet who ran over a pedestrian on San Diego base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just over a year after retired sailor James Edward Brammer ran over and killed a pedestrian inside Naval Base San Diego, he was sentenced Thursday in federal court to five years of probation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brammer, 85, had already pleaded guilty earlier in the month to a vehicular manslaughter charge tied to the hit-and-run death<\/a> of Cornilla Martinez, 73, an employee of the Subway restaurant inside the Navy Exchange<\/a>, on March 15, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last spring, federal investigators descended on the humble Calle Serena home of Brammer to seize his brown 2008 Ford F-150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video surveillance footage from a nearby oil change shop on base showed that type of truck, loaded with a large chair in the back, running over the small woman strolling through a crosswalk, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained last year by the San Diego Union-Tribune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Exchange had sold Brammer a recliner that day, which is how authorities tracked him down. When interrogated, the elderly driver did not appear to even realize that he\u2019d run over a pedestrian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremiah J. Sullivan III<\/a>, a prominent criminal defense attorney who specializes in military court-martial litigation, took up Brammer\u2019s case pro bono<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t