CHRISTIAN STUEBEN, VERNIS' ATTORNEY: Well, Mr. Lanzaro testified in prison at his deposition that the day of the incident, he had gone to Giants Stadium early for his own tailgate party and he consumed three cans of beer at the tailgate party.
He then walked into the stadium. At the time, stadium policy was that only two beers per customer were served. He always had two beers. He was drunk by half time. He purchased marijuana there in addition to purchasing alcohol there. He said at half time 30 or 40 men, young men were smoking marijuana. He was so drunk he wanted to smoke it, too. The second person he asked sold it to him.
Then he went to a beer concessionaire, duped the seller of the beer 10 bucks and instead of getting two beers, he got six, so he would have enough beer to drink after the cutoff time.
O'BRIEN: When I look at the list of the people, though, who are named as defendants in the suit -- Toyota, Enterprise Rental Cars, Aramark, the NFL, the Giants, the New Jersey Sports Authority, the list goes on and on and on.
Why do you think they have some kind of culpability when, at the end of the day, it was the driver who chose to drink, drank too much and was the one who caused this accident?
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