YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Attorneys involved in the case against a 38-year-old Poland doctor charged in a fatal boating accident met behind closed doors in Judge John Durkin's courtroom on Friday.

The pre-trial was in advance of the scheduled July 10th trial of Dr. Joseph Yurich, who is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, OVI, and leaving the scene of an accident.

Investigators say Yurich's speed boat struck a fishing boat around midnight on May 9, 2015 on Berlin Lake and then left the scene.

A man in the other boat, Neal Cuppett of Akron died. Another man in the boat with Cuppett was injured.

Authorities alleged that Yurich was intoxicated, but judge Durkin has ruled that blood and urine samples taken from Yurich are inadmissible because they were not refrigerated before being taken to a lab for analysis.

The charge against Yurich is a felony and a conviction would dictate prison time.

Yurich, a general surgeon at The Surgical Hospital at Southwoods in Boardman, settled a wrongful death negligence suit filed by the Cuppett's estate.

In May, a second negligence suit was filed against Yurich by the man who survived the boating incident.