Wednesday, October 27, 2004
CANTON (AP) -- A woman who admitted driving drunk and causing an accident that killed three people has received 14 years in prison.
Makeebrah Turner, 35, of Warrensville Heights in suburban Cleveland, was sentenced Tuesday by Stark County Common Pleas Judge John G. Haas.
She had pleaded guilty earlier this month to three counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, one count of aggravated vehicular assault and one count of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
Turner had a blood-alcohol level of 0.211, more than twice the state's legal limit of 0.08, in May when her southbound sport utility vehicle crossed the center line of state Route 183 and struck a car driven by Arthur Rhome, 69, of Washington Township, county prosecutors said.
Rhome and two passengers, Richard W. Burton, 83, and his 80-year-old wife, Phyllis, both of Sebring, were killed. Rhome's 64-year-old wife, Patricia, survived.
"Some good people were taken from us because of this decision you made," the judge said at the sentencing.