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Friday, August 21, 2009
Ind. Courts -Still more on: Verdict in road-rage shooting trial in Clark County
Updating this ILB entry from August 1st, Harold J. Adams of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today in a story that begins:
A Clark County judge sentenced a Jeffersonville woman Thursday to 10 years for shooting a motorcyclist following a rolling confrontation of more than a mile along a city street.People can't “decide that they are going to settle a traffic dispute with bullets and guns,” Clark Circuit Judge Dan Moore told Yalanda Parrish, who will be allowed to serve the final three years of her sentence on work release. Moore could have sentenced her to as many as 20 years.
The judge also ordered Parrish to pay $1,881 in restitution to the man she shot, Wesley Mosier, for medical expenses. * * *
At Thursday's sentencing hearing, Moore told the packed courtroom that while preparing for deciding on a sentence, he had his staff drive the stretch of 10th Street where the problems had escalated and count the number of driveways and other possible escape routes that either motorist could have taken.
There were 48 such opportunities, the judge said. And Moore said he went to see the gas station next to the location where the shooting took place. He said Parrish had “two options to pull into that driveway before she chose to pull that gun.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 21, 2009 11:23 AM
Posted to Ind. Trial Ct. Decisions