Atlanta, GA 1/25/2008 12:19:17 AM
News / Law

Melissa Arrington Gets 10 Years For Laughing About Death

A 27-year-old Arizona woman was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in jail after she laughed about the death of a bicyclist, who she struck and killed while drinking and driving. Melissa Arrington was convicted on DUI and negligent homicide charges in the 2006 death of 45-year-old Paul L’Ecuyer. She faced a minimum of 4 years behind bars but received a longer sentence after the judge heard a recorded conversation she had in jail.

In the recording Arrington was talking to a male friend who said a mutual acquaintance believed she should be awarded a “medal and parade” because she had “taken out a tree hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot.”   

 

Arrington laughed at the comment and when the man said he knew it was a horrible thing to say, she assured him it wasn’t. “No, its not,” she said.

 

Pima County Superior Court Judge Michael Cruikshank said the conversation was “breathtaking in its inhumanity” before sentencing her to 10 1/2 years in prison.

 

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