By Barbara Tetreault
LANCASTER — Prosecutors are asking the court to allow testimony of prior instances of illegal drug use and erratic driving as evidence in the case of Vladimir Zhukovskyy, the truck driver charged in the deaths of seven motorcyclists on Route 2 in Randolph last June.
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