Calif woman gets 6 years for fatal texting crash

[the color nine]

REDDING, Calif. (AP) - A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles.

Deborah Matis-Engle was sentenced Friday by a judge in Redding, Calif.

Investigators said Deborah Matis-Engle was speeding and text messaging when she slammed into the vehicles stopped at a construction zone in August 2007.

Shasta County prosecutor Stephanie Bridgett said the 49-year-old woman had paid several bills by cell phone in the moments before the crash.

She was in the middle of one of those transactions when she struck a vehicle that burst into flames, killing 46-year-old Petra Winn.

Defense attorney Jeffrey Stotter said he will appeal.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090404/D97BP5DO0.html

[the color nine]

I just found Petra Winn's myspace.  :(

Can this be moved?
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID =131549893

[bowieluva]

[quote author=the color nine link=topic=19329.msg1238258#msg1238258 date=1238887319]
I just found Petra Winn's myspace.  :(

Can this be moved?
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID =131549893
[/quote]
Her kid's messages are so, so sad. I don't know how anyone can want to appeal this. If I killed someone being that stupid, and saw what I did to the family, I would shut the fuck up and accept my fate.

[Ron_NYC]

[quote author=bowieluva link=topic=19329.msg1238272#msg1238272 date=1238888222]
Her kid's messages are so, so sad. I don't know how anyone can want to appeal this. If I killed someone being that stupid, and saw what I did to the family, I would shut the fuck up and accept my fate.
[/quote]

Seriously. 6 years?! She'll be out in 4. I guess they need the space to house some lady selling weed.

[ZoMyGoddess!]

[quote author=Ron_NYC link=topic=19329.msg1238274#msg1238274 date=1238888284]
Seriously. 6 years?! She'll be out in 4. I guess they need the space to house some lady selling weed.
[/quote]

please, 3 tops.  there are A LOT of weed dealers out there.