From Richmond Times-Dispatch
Fatal and injury-laden automobile accidents involving drunken driving are bringing long prison terms in Hanover County and stern warnings from judges who are going far beyond sentencing guidelines.
In a case Monday in which an illegal immigrant had pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter and felony maiming in the death of a beloved King William County man, Judge J. Overton Harris of Hanover Circuit Court went nearly four years beyond the high end of the guidelines, sentencing the humbled defendant to 12 years in prison.
“Every time I have been to talk to him, he curls up in a ball and cries,” said defense lawyer Michael Clower of Feliciano Aguas Suarez, now 30. ….MORE