An Ohio man who confessed in a YouTube video to killing a man while driving drunk in 2013 has been released from prison several months early.
Cordle's attorney, George Breitmayer III, told NBC News that Cordle has a job as a drug and alcohol counselor lined up and that he earned an associate's degree while in prison.
Cordle said at the hearing Wednesday that he has tried to fulfill his pledge to be a better person."I believe I've done that by developing maturity and responsibility that I didn’t have before,” he said, according to WCMH. In the 2013 YouTube video, Cordle said he had been out with friends and drinking heavily before striking Canzani's Jeep, killing the Navy veteran.
An indictment says his blood-alcohol level was 0.19, more than twice the legal limit. His driver's license has been suspended for life.Around the time that Cordle was sentenced, Canzani's ex-wife, Cheryl Canzani Oates, in a letter to the judge said the victim would not have wanted him to be sentenced to the maximum.
"Vince would not want to see two lives lost in this terrible situation due to Matthew drinking and driving," she wrote in the letter.that there were 10,874 people killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes in 2017, which accounted for 29 percent of all motor vehicle traffic fatalities in the United States that year.
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