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| In somber courtroom, Rumrill sentenced |
| By statenews.com |
| Published: 01/11/2010 |
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When the prison gates click shut behind Melissa Rumrill, the outside world will start to disappear. Behind the doors is a world where each person loses their individual freedoms, where they are confined to a 70-square-foot prison cell and surrounded by criminals. This is the former MSU student’s reality. Rumrill was sentenced Wednesday to serve 30 months to 15 years in prison on drunken driving charges stemming from an August 2008 car accident that killed MSU student Joe Barton. “Like I said before, there is so much pain and suffering his family has had to go through,” Rumrill said Wednesday. “I am so sorry.” Police said Rumrill drove the wrong way down US-127 and ran into another car. A second vehicle crashed into the first car. Barton was a passenger in the two-door Saturn that Rumrill was driving. Friends of Barton said the two were heavily intoxicated that night. She pleaded no contest to one count of drunken driving causing death and one count of drunken driving causing serious injury. Read More. |
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