EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A wrong-way drunken driver in Washington received the maximum sentence - 20 years and five months in prison - for causing a fatal crash.
The Daily Herald reports Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Bruce Weiss on Wednesday handed down the term for 56-year-old Aaron Gentry.
Gentry went the wrong way onto I-5 in his daughter’s Ford Explorer around 4 p.m. on July 1 in Marysville.
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Gentry weaved into the path of a southbound Toyota Corolla. The driver, Dora-Jean Wyne, swerved left. The impact killed her friend, 28-year-old Miriam Robinson.
Gentry pleaded guilty in December. It was the seventh time he’d been convicted of being impaired behind the wheel.
A plea offer by deputy prosecutor Tobin Darrow recommended about 18 years behind bars for Gentry, for vehicular homicide. Weiss rejected the deal and sentenced Gentry to the maximum sentence.
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Information from: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldnet.com
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