Drunk Driver to Be Sentenced in Fatal Crash
Posted By Freedman & Freedman on May 27, 2010 7:00am PDT
Francis Dingle, age 48, will find out her fate today for the fatal crash that claimed the lives of 4 teens on March 16, 2009. The Mount Clemens woman faces a minimum of 18 - 31 years in prison and a maximum of life after pleading no contest to 4 counts of second degree murder and operating while intoxicated causing death. It is reported that Dingle's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit after a day-long drinking binge when the crash occurred.
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