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Old August 17th 08, 04:42 AM posted to rec.autos.driving,alt.law-enforcement.traffic,talk.politics.misc,alt.true-crime,misc.transport.trucking
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Default Guy Wins $10M in Lottery - 4 years later drives drunk and kills 3 - 17 years prison




I'm amazed. People with that kind of money can burn down an orphanage and
avoid prison. Does San Bernardino actually have an honest judge?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26237426/

Lottery winner goes to prison for deadly crash
Man won $10 million in 2001, gets 17 years for driving drunk; 3 killed
updated 11:29 a.m. MT, Sat., Aug. 16, 2008

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A man who won $10 million in a California lottery
game was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for a drunken-driving
crash that killed three people.

Thomas Turnour pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while
intoxicated and causing injury while driving intoxicated.

The winner of a SuperLotto game in 2001 was sentenced Friday in San
Bernardino.

The 52-year-old man from Victorville was driving a pickup that hit a car
stopped at a red light in San Bernardino three years ago, authorities say.
Three people inside the first car died.

His attorney said Turnour essentially "turned over everything he has" to
settle a lawsuit filed by the victims' families.
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