Britt Reid was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday as part of a felony DWI plea deal, one less than the prosecution recommended, despite a passionate argument from the mother of one of his young victims that he receive a longer sentence.
was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday as part of a felony DWI plea deal, one less than the prosecution recommended, despite a passionate argument from the mother of one of his young victims that he receive a longer sentence.has acknowledged getting drunk at the team facility on February 4, 2020He made it less than a half a mile before slamming at 84 miles per hour into two vehicles parked on the side of an interstate on ramp. One was dealing with car trouble. The other came to assist.
With now 6-year-old Ariel Young in the courtroom, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge listened to Miller’s plea for a maximum seven-year sentence but instead went with three. Judges almost always follow plea deal recommendations, local attorneys said. In this case, the prosecution recommended four years.In a blistering victim impact statement, she characterized Reid as privileged, out of touch and unsympathetic.
Miller detailed for the first time publicly the horrors of seeing through her rearview mirror as Reid’s Dodge Ram truck sped toward her vehicle that was there to aid a relative. She was knocked unconscious at impact only to awaken in a panic over the fate of two children in the now crumbled over backseat.
“We were discharged from the hospital to our small home not far from the highway where Britt Reid hurt us. Ariel laid on a couch with a feeding tube in place. I would load her into my car and take her to therapy. She couldn’t walk. She cried in the wheelchair. So I carried my 5-year-old like a new-born baby.
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