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Prison Break star gets 40 months jail
Thursday Nov 1 06:26 AEDT

Former Prison Break actor Lane Garrison was sentenced to three years and four months prison in the US today for a drunken driving crash that killed a teenager last December.

The 27-year-old actor, who played rookie David 'Tweener' Apolskis in the TV series, could have faced nearly seven years in prison.

Garrison was driving a 2001 Land Rover on December 2 when he lost control and rammed a tree. The crash killed his passenger Vahagn Setian, a Beverly Hills High School student. Two 15-year-old girls in the car survived.



Police said the actor had a blood-alcohol content of 0.20 per cent, more than twice the legal limit for driving, and was under the influence of cocaine, according to police.

no reaction to the sentencing and was taken away in handcuffs to immediately begin serving the time.

Before the ruling, he apologised to the victim's family.

"I'm sick of my own behaviour that night," he said. "This remorse is genuine. I feel it every day."

The judge said the punishment was appropriate.

"The public has the right to know that conduct such as this, causing devastation such as this," will have consequences, Judge Elden Fox said.

"Unfortunately, in this case, you have to be the messenger," he told Garrison. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of four years and eight months, two years less than the maximum.

Yesterday, friends of the dead teen tried to deliver to the court a petition carrying more than 3,000 signatures asking that Garrison receive the maximum sentence. But the judge refused to accept it today, calling it inappropriate.

The actor pleaded guilty in May to one count of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence, one count of driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 per cent or higher and a misdemeanour of providing alcohol to a minor.

At his last court appearance on August 2, he apologised to the victim's family.

"I have relived that night every day and I think about the bad decisions I made. I can say to you I am so sorry that you lost someone because I love people. That is my first passion," he said.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=313249

haha I posted yesterday the same but I put in the News thread! if its wrong posted, maybe you can delete it??

Such irony... But I can't say he didn't deserve it. This is an appropriate punishment.

At least he is taking responsability for his actions.

I think he received the right punishment for his crime.

lol really? oh well we can keep two no dramas!
I know he def did deserve it, but I do hope that this will make some of those other actors realsie that drinking driving and drugs is not a good idea, regardless of who you are

i feel bad for him but he deserved it, he decided to get drunk and drive and a kid has died, but he really is taking responsibility and that's good.

Elvere wrote:i feel bad for him but he deserved it, he decided to get drunk and drive and a kid has died, but he really is taking responsibility and that's good.

i agree with you

Yesterday, friends of the dead teen tried to deliver to the court a petition carrying more than 3,000 signatures asking that Garrison receive the maximum sentence. But the judge refused to accept it today, calling it inappropriate.

That sounds rather ridiculous. Its not like he kidnapped the boy and 2 girls. They asked him to take them to a party or something. Shoulda told their kids not to go in a stranger's car and let you drive them while he's drunk.

Grief can do strange things with people.