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From The Chronicle Telegram
ELYRIA — Tom Tomasheski was surrounded by family and friends Friday as Gerald Wetherbee Jr. pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the crash a year ago that critically injured him and his daughter and killed his wife, Tammy Tomasheski, and their 11-year-old son, Tommy Tomasheski.
Wetherbee, 36, appeared on the verge of tears as he quietly entered guilty pleas to charges of aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault, vehicular assault, DUI and driving under suspension.
He will face up to 36 years in prison when he is sentenced June 22, and prosecutors have said they plan to ask Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge for the maximum sentence. Burge told Wetherbee that he will also lose his driving privileges for the rest of his life.
In exchange for the plea in the crash case, prosecutors dropped charges of tampering with records and failure to register as a sex offender in an unrelated case that dealt with allegations that Wetherbee was lying to the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office about where he was living. ….MORE

From Houston Chronicle
Prosecutor Catherine Evans on Monday showed jurors a wide-angle photo of a nighttime crime scene on the North Loop with wreckage strewn across the highway and pointed out white sheets on the blacktop.
“This defendant’s car flew through Officer Kevin Will, mutilating his body,” she said. “Three sheets were needed to cover his body … in three separate places.”
Evans told the jury she would later this week ask them to sentence 27-year-old Johoan Rodriguez to life in prison. More than a dozen Houston police officers were in court for opening arguments in the punishment phase of Rodriguez’s trial …MORE

Gilbert Sanchez released on bail prior to trial

A Pueblo District Court judge has granted an order limiting pretrial publicity in the vehicular homicide case of Gilbert O. Sanchez, 36.
District Judge Thomas Flesher’s gag order restricts court personnel and law enforcement from commenting on the case.  …MORE