The following MSNBC news video deals with both sports and crime. It is about an accident that has claimed the life of Dallas Cowboys football player Jerry Brown. As a result of the same crash, teammate Josh Brent has been charged with intoxication manslaughter.
After a night of drinking at a local watering hole, Josh Brent was driving, with Jerry Brown as a passenger. In Irving, Texas (a suburb of Dallas), Brent crashed his vehicle. Both were injured, and Brown was killed. Brent survived the crash but is now facing a criminal charge of intoxication manslaughter. That means killing someone as a result of driving drunk.
Texas Intoxication Manslaughter:
Under Texas law, intoxication manslaughter is a 2nd-degree felony. The possible prison sentence for Josh Brent will be 2 to 20 years if he is convicted. According to this MSNBC report, Brent was already arrested for DWI when he was a college student and football player at the University of Illinois. So a conviction is likely to see more than 2 years of jail time. Probation is possible, but that is unlikely in this case since Brent has a history.
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