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The four men and two women jury reached their verdict Friday morning. The trial had lasted four days.
In her closing argument, Westchester County prosecutor Doreen Lloyd drew gasps in the courtroom when she took a pointed parting shot at Kennedy.
"Speak truth to power and convict Kerry Kennedy of the crime she committed," Lloyd told the jury, reports New York's Daily News .
Kennedy had written a 2000 book titled Speak Truth to Power, about human rights.
At the time of the incident, police said Kennedy was impaired by prescription drugs when she hit a big rig with her Lexus SUV and then fled the scene.
She was later found parked on the side of I-684 in North Castle, N.Y., and taken in for sobriety tests.
Kennedy was charged with misdemeanor driving while ability impaired and issued traffic tickets, police said.
She said in the course of trial testimony that she had mistaken her thyroid medicine for a generic sleeping pill.
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