A lady was sentenced to at the very least 70 years in jail for inflicting the deaths of two bicyclists who have been hit whereas collaborating in a charity experience in western Michigan.
The choose in Ionia County stacked two 35-year phrases for Mandy Benn, a uncommon consecutive punishment. Most sentences in Michigan courts run concurrently.
Police mentioned Benn was below the affect of medication when she crossed the middle line and hit a gaggle of bicyclists on a rural street in 2022.
Edward Erickson, 48, of Ann Arbor, and Michael Salhaney, 57, of Bloomfield Hills, have been killed whereas driving in a three-day endurance occasion for the Make-A-Want Basis.
Mandy Benn seems for her preliminary examination on costs of second-degree homicide at Ionia County Courthouse in Ionia, Michigan, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. (Joel Bissell/MLive.com/The Grand Rapids Press through AP)
“This is not an accident. … There was a series of choices you made at some point to ingest this cocktail of narcotics and that led to everything we saw,” Choose Ronald Schafer mentioned Tuesday.
In October, Benn, 44, was convicted of second-degree murder and a raft of different costs.
She apologized in courtroom on Tuesday and browse out the names of the lifeless and injured bicyclists.
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“I know you haven’t seen much of it but I am very much so sorry,” Benn mentioned. “I never in my life had any intent of hurting anyone. One moment — that moment — changed the outcome of a lot of futures.”
