Man sentenced to life in prison after 10th DWI
On one hand – 10 times without killing someone – maybe the 11th he’ll wipe out a family or a school bus or something. On the other hand – life in prision…
Whaddya think?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5932916.html
WICHITA FALLS, Texas — A man with nine previous drunken driving convictions was sentenced to life in prison.
Kenneth Chris Oneal, 58, received the maximum sentence Thursday after jurors convicted him of driving while intoxicated-repetition, his 10th drunken-driving related offense.
The offense was a felony because he had at least two such convictions in the past, prosecutors said. He faced from 25 years to life in prison.
Department of Public Safety troopers pulled him over in October and his blood-alcohol level tested at .215 percent, which means it was nearly three times the Texas legal limit of .08 percent, authorities said.
Ben Hoover, lead prosecutor in the case, said Oneal also had previously been convicted of assault and failure to stop and render aid.
“The jury handed down a big sentence, but it was a just sentence,” Hoover said. “The jury apparently took this offense seriously and wanted to send a message that a multiple-DWI offender was not going to be allowed back on the roads of Wichita County.”
