MN Driver Pleads Guilty In Traffic Death yet Continues to Drive Recklessly

Mancheski, answering questions from prosecutor Imran Ali,

admitted he was driving between 83 and 89 miles

per hour before the crash.

To which the judge responds:

Judge Mary Hann warned Mancheski that any additional

offenses before his Feb. 24 sentencing,

including driving a vehicle, could result in prison time.

Star Tribune
By Kevin Giles
November 17, 2011

A Maplewood man pleaded guilty Thursday to causing a collision that killed a Minnesota National Guard staff sergeant who was driving to work.

Anthony Lloyd Mancheski, 21, admitted in Washington County District Court that he was speeding in May 2010 when he lost control and struck Brian J. Jacobson's car.

Under the plea agreement with county prosecutors, Mancheski will spend up to a year in jail on a felony charge of criminal vehicular homicide.

He also will spend as long as 10 years on probation.

Since Jacobson's death, Mancheski has had speeding convictions, all petty misdemeanors, in Cottage Grove, Oakdale and Newport.

He was cited in Maplewood on Sept. 11 for fourth-degree drunken driving, a misdemeanor, after wrecking his car in an accident.

A person operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated can be charged and convicted of a Fourth Degree DWI in situations in which such an individual has no other driving while impaired violations within ten years before the current case. It appears reckless driving and killing someone is acceptable as long as one was not "driving while impaired."

On Thursday, Judge Mary Hann warned Mancheski that any additional offenses before his Feb. 24 sentencing, including driving a vehicle, could result in prison time.

Jacobson's car was "virtually destroyed" in the collision on Hwy. 61 just north of the Hastings Bridge, according to the criminal charges.

Mancheski, answering questions from prosecutor Imran Ali, admitted he was driving between 83 and 89 miles per hour before the crash.

Killing a MN Grandpa in a Crosswalk Yields a 7 Year Jail Sentence (truly sad)

Criminal Vehicular Homicide in MN

May be sentenced to Not More

Than 10 Years in Prison

or to Payment of a Fine of

Not More Than $20,000

or Both

Star Tribune
By Anthony Lonetree
November 3, 2011

When their paths crossed on St. Paul's East Side in July, Roger Tetu, 78, was a "man of honor" beloved by his Dayton's Bluff community, while Gregory J. Larsin, 21, was a felon whose life was "out of control," a judge said Thursday.

Larsin, driving with a suspended license, passed cars that were waiting for Tetu to cross Earl Street on July 26, and struck and killed him.

For three days, Larsin was on the run, trying to persuade a woman from whom he bought the car to report it stolen. But eventually he surrendered to police. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 7 1/3 years in prison for one count of criminal vehicular homicide.

"You are and continue to be a danger to the community," Ramsey County District Judge Robyn Millenacker said.

Tetu, in contrast, was an iconic patriarch, "a pillar of the community," said prosecutor Margaret Galvin.

She read to the court a victim impact statement written by a daughter, Nancy Tetu, who gave up trying to read it herself after she shook with emotion.

For 56 years, Roger Tetu lived in a house near where he died. Even in his late 70s, his daughter wrote, he shoveled snow for his neighbors, never complaining. He was crossing the street to pick up litter when he was hit and killed, friends and family said. Continue Reading