1bad65
06-17-2010, 12:53 PM
Oh, the irony.
"A Gaithersburg man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a drunken-driving crash that injured a former judge, who had spared him jail time years before.
Rene Fernandez, 45, also will serve three years of supervised probation in Montgomery County after he pleaded guilty to causing a life-threatening injury with a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Fernandez swerved into oncoming traffic on an August afternoon in 2009, and crashed head-on into Edwin and Ellen Collier.
Edwin Collier, now a retired Montgomery County judge, had seen Fernandez in his courtroom in 1998 for drunken driving and sentenced him to 60 days in jail but suspended the term in favor of a year of supervised probation and abstaining from alcohol, according to court records."
Complete article:
http://www.gazette.net/stories/06162010/gaitnew194857_32548.php
"A Gaithersburg man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a drunken-driving crash that injured a former judge, who had spared him jail time years before.
Rene Fernandez, 45, also will serve three years of supervised probation in Montgomery County after he pleaded guilty to causing a life-threatening injury with a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Fernandez swerved into oncoming traffic on an August afternoon in 2009, and crashed head-on into Edwin and Ellen Collier.
Edwin Collier, now a retired Montgomery County judge, had seen Fernandez in his courtroom in 1998 for drunken driving and sentenced him to 60 days in jail but suspended the term in favor of a year of supervised probation and abstaining from alcohol, according to court records."
Complete article:
http://www.gazette.net/stories/06162010/gaitnew194857_32548.php