The snide comment that left slain Netflix star’s friends FURIOUS as Hamptons hit-and-run court hearing turns into Jerry Springer-style clash

The friends of Netflix star Sara Burack had an ugly exchange with the lawyer defending the hit-and-run driver outside a Long Island courthouse on Monday.

Amanda Kempton, 32, the driver who mowed down the beloved reality star on a dark Hamptons road during the early morning hours of June 19, appeared uneasy when she arrived at Southampton Justice Court with her father.

Kempton, dressed in a black suit and red floral blouse sat in the back of the courtroom as her dad placed a comforting arm around her shoulder at times. She was overheard saying ‘God Bless You’ when someone nearby sneezed.

But she was silent when Judge Karen Sartain called on her. 

She is accused of mowing down Burack and leaving her body lying in the middle of the road after mistaking her for a ‘traffic cone’. 

Her next court date will be August 25. The drama exploded after her hearing today, outside the courthouse, where Sara’s friends were waiting.   

‘How can you hit a person and keep driving? How can you not know that someone was underneath your car?’ they screamed. 

Kempton’s attorney – who had been professional inside – shot back with an insult that drew gasps. 

‘Why was she walking in the road at 2.45am in the morning?’ he said. 

Hit-and-run driver Amanda Kempton with her father  arriving at a Hamptons courtroom on Monday

Million Dollar Beach House star Sara Burack has been killed in a hit-and-run crash in the Hamptons

Daily Mail previously revealed how Burack had been down on her luck and living as a vagrant in her tragic final days. 

Her friends don’t believe Kempton’s claim that she couldn’t see the road.  

‘We don’t believe there was zero visibility,’ Paulette Corsair said.

‘I came here today to support Sara. We are all broken and sad that our friend was hit by this woman that left her for dead. 

‘I know Sara would want us to be here.’  

Burack’s other friend called the incident a ‘tragedy’ and referred to Kempton as ‘an empty, soulless woman’ who ‘needs to be prosecuted.’ 

Kempton’s attorney, William Keahon, told Daily Mail privately that his client is a ‘good girl’.

‘She understands someone lost their life and she can’t stop thinking about it,’ he said.

‘She wasn’t drinking. She wasn’t speeding. She wasn’t weaving in and out of lanes. 

‘She thought she hit a traffic cone or a construction barrel and didn’t realize she hit someone.’ 

Keahon told Daily Mail he is waiting for the toxicology report from the Medical Examiner’s office to determine whether Burack was intoxicated or under the influence of judge. 

Burack, once a darling of the Hamptons elite, had been reduced to showering at a local Planet Fitness and begging businesses to give her cardboard boxes.

Kempton with her father and attorney William Keahon outside Southampton Justice Court on Monday 

Sara Burack attends Sir Ivan’s Summer End Party featuring DJ Timo Mass at The Castle in Water Mill, New York in August 22. The reality TV star realtor was homeless and living out of a suitcase when she was run over and killed in the Hamptons earlier this month

She had previously been a top-selling realtor at Nest Seekers International and had considerable experience of selling multi-million dollar homes.

She once appeared to have it all: a magnificent home, luxurious car, as well as close friends and relatives who adored her.

But in the last 12 months Burack suffered a series of private struggles that saw her deteriorate into a destitute vagrant.

Locals who spoke to Daily Mail said they felt too loyal to Burack even in death to disclose the demons she had been battling.

One surprised Hamptons-dweller called Michael said that Burack’s distinctive long blonde hair and full lips made her look like a movie star.

He said he’d been stunned to discover she was homeless.

Other locals recalled the upsetting sight of Burack wheeling her bags around town, catching the bus or just walking alone.

A memorial was put up where Sara Burack was hit by a car in the Hampton Bays, New York by her friend and former co worker Paulette Corsair (pictured) 

Mario was the Good Samaritan who stayed with Sara Burack after finding her body in the road and calling 911 

Before the crash, Burack had stopped into a 7-Eleven, a place she often went to pick up items including, bottled water, heading west. The roads were dark and it was a foggy night.

Burack was reportedly walking in the right-hand lane of the busy Montauk Highway, pulling her pink wheeled suitcase, when she was struck by Amanda Kempton’s vehicle just before 3am outside of Villa Paul Restaurant.

On the night of the tragic hit-and- run, Burack had stopped at a taxi depot.

An employee there said the ‘homeless’ realtor walked into their office ‘between 10.30pm and 10.45pm,’ before asking for a cardboard box.

He said Burack appeared ‘combative’ and told him she was taking showers at Planet Fitness though he said she ‘looked unclean, had dirty hair, and a slight odor,’ the night he saw her.

‘I was not sure how she was getting her clothes cleaned but she was pretty much carrying everything with her and see her walking sometimes with a cart,’ he said.

Unware that she was once a former top real estate agent and reality TV star, he seemed unfazed how her life had dramatically changed.

‘In this business I see everything,’ he said. ‘The rise and fall of people.’

The dark-haired woman sitting outside the Manorville home may be Kempton’s mother though she did not reveal herself. She told Daily Mail ‘no comment’ 

Mario, a mason and commercial fisherman was driving home sometime after 2.30am after spending the night working on his friends fishing boat when he saw something in the road.

He immediately turned his car around and that is when he saw Burack lying on the road.

‘She was bleeding. Her head was on the curb and her body was contorted like a pretzel,’ Mario recalled.

He said Burack had suffered further horrible injuries and that she was ‘moaning’ when he found her.

Mario, a mason and commercial fisherman was driving home sometime after 2.30am after spending the night working on his friends fishing boat when he saw something in the road.

He immediately turned his car around and that is when he saw Burack lying on the road.

Burack was struck on the Montauk Highway, near  restaurant Villa Paul (pictured) in the early hours of the morning 

‘She was bleeding. Her head was on the curb and her body was contorted like a pretzel,’ Mario recalled.

He said Burack had suffered further horrible injuries and that she was ‘moaning’ when he found her.

Based on his observation, Mario said he believes the victims body was hit by the vehicle and dragged more than a 100 feet. He also noticed no skid marks on the road.

‘If you hit a speed bump, an animal, a pothole most people hit the brakes. This person never hit the brakes once,’ he said.

He added, ‘there is no f***ing way (the driver) didn’t know they hit a person.’

The harrowing ordeal was personal for Mario, whose father was killed in 2011 after he was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver on a Long Island road.