Douglas Women Gets Probation in Deadly ATV Crash
A Douglas women kills 5 and still doesn't go to jail. The article below about appeared in today's LA Times.
DOUGLAS, Ga. -- A woman convicted of driving under the influence in a crash that killed five children on an all-terrain vehicle was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation. Amanda Troupe's sentence includes nine months in a probation detention center, a month in an alcohol treatment center and some community service, Coffee County Superior Court Judge Michael Boggs ordered.
Troupe originally faced homicide charges in the Sept. 20, 2003, crash on a rural road in Southeast Georgia, but she was acquitted Aug. 28. The jury found her guilty of two counts of driving under the influence, each with a maximum sentence of one year. Heather Bass, then 13, was the only survivor among the children hit on the ATV. Killed were Meagan Nelson, 13; Lindsay Joyner, 13; Kayla Varnedore, 13; Dustin Varnedore, 11; and Courtney Arsenault, 10. The defense claimed Troupe was being used as a scapegoat and told jurors that the children and their parents were just as responsible for the accident.
DOUGLAS, Ga. -- A woman convicted of driving under the influence in a crash that killed five children on an all-terrain vehicle was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation. Amanda Troupe's sentence includes nine months in a probation detention center, a month in an alcohol treatment center and some community service, Coffee County Superior Court Judge Michael Boggs ordered.
Troupe originally faced homicide charges in the Sept. 20, 2003, crash on a rural road in Southeast Georgia, but she was acquitted Aug. 28. The jury found her guilty of two counts of driving under the influence, each with a maximum sentence of one year. Heather Bass, then 13, was the only survivor among the children hit on the ATV. Killed were Meagan Nelson, 13; Lindsay Joyner, 13; Kayla Varnedore, 13; Dustin Varnedore, 11; and Courtney Arsenault, 10. The defense claimed Troupe was being used as a scapegoat and told jurors that the children and their parents were just as responsible for the accident.
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