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Share1341 Updated: December 22, 2010, 8:10 PM ETNick Adenhart's killer sentencedEmail Print Comments2243 Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A construction worker who killed a promising rookie pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels and two other people in a horrific drunken driving crash said Wednesday he had all but ended his own life that night by getting behind the wheel after drinking. Andrew Gallo, 24, acknowledged his deadly mistake to the grieving relatives of his victims and said he expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars before a judge sentenced him to 51 years to life in prison. [+] EnlargeAP Photo/Mark Rightmire/Pool Andrew Gallo was sentenced to 51 years to life in prison for killing three people. "I know whatever I say will not change anything or the way you think or feel about me," said Gallo, who faced the judge because he was not permitted to look at the courtroom audience. "You're right. I am a horrible person, a drunk driver who took your beautiful kids away," he said. Gallo was convicted in September of three counts of second-degree murder and single counts of drunken driving, hit-and-run driving and driving under the influence of alcohol and causing great bodily injury. Judge Richard F. Toohey gave Gallo 15 years to life on each of the murder counts and six additional years for the other crimes. Prosecutors said Gallo, who was on parole for a felony DUI conviction, had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit when he blew through a red light at 65 mph on April 9, 2009, and T-boned the car carrying pitcher Nick Adenhart and three friends. Also killed were 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old Henry Pearson. A fourth passenger, Jon Wilhite, had his spine separated from his skull by the impact and survived. "Enjoy your life in that cage in which you belong, because you are no longer here on Earth," Wilhite said in a letter to Gallo that was read aloud in court. "I can assure you are headed to a much darker place." Scores of people attended the hearing, including relatives of the victims who clutched giant, smiling photos of their loved ones. They pleaded with Toohey to sentence Gallo to life. "I am hollow inside. I will never be the same," said Stewart's mother, Carrie Stewart-Dixon. "I pray to God every day to bring her back." Adenhart's family sent a letter saying his parents hoped the sentence would bring some peace to their dead son, but justice could never be achieved. "There is no balancing of the scales. There is no justice so long as Mr. Gallo is drawing breath," the letter said. Prosecutors said Gallo drank beer and shots at three different bars with his stepbrother before driving off in the family minivan. Jurors saw a videotaped interview in which he told police he didn't remember driving that night and apologized to the victims' families. Defense attorney Jacqueline Goodman had asked that Gallo be given just one sentence of 15 years to life, saying he never intended to hurt anybody. "I don't think he should be treated like a cold-blooded killer," she said after the hearing. "I don't think he's irredeemable." Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said his office has won 49 convictions for drunk driving homicides since 2008. With the holidays approaching, he urged residents to remember this case as they celebrate. "There's just no good in this, there's just no good in this kind of thing anywhere," he said. "It's all tragic."
I got an e-mail from my brother this afternoon before i walked out from my house today...
My great aunt died last night....she raised me since i was 2 yrs old...she taught me everything I know and more than any man (meaning my biological father) could ever teach me.....i was pretty bummed at work and i tried to keep a straight face but it was very hard...
I ll be ok ..I found out the funeral is on Christmas eve and theres no way im going back home to NJ on Thursday to a funeral so close to Christmas......
Why isnt there some kind of cosmic moratorium with death during the holidays??
What does "Spotted Dick" taste like???
Why do people act like morons during a time everyone is suppposed to be nice to each other???
Why do hot chicks ( who know they can get a date with any man they can) act like they are undateable or the men they want to date are no good for them??
Why does a dog lick its balls??
Why do women constantly complain about nonsensical shit??
Why dont i trust grown adult men??....I actually already know the answer to that one......
i think i ve rambled enough for now......
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Airport officials at Denver International airport were on high alert yesterday when a full body scanner operator was caught masturbating in his booth as a team of High School netball players went through the scanner.
"The young ladies were going through the scanner one by one, and every time one went through, this guys face was getting redder and redder. His hand was moving and then he started sweating. He was then seen doing his 'O' face. That's when the security dragged him out of his booth and cuffed him. He had his pants round his ankles and everybody was really disgusted," Jeb Rather, a passenger on a flight to New York told CBS news.
The controversial scanners display every minute detail of a person's body and have been called intrusive by privacy campaigners. Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual porn shoot. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing highly detailed pictures of genitals, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.
"What do you want to do, get blown up by a goddamn Arab at 30,000 feet or we get to see your private parts? It's up to you, the ball's in your park," head of the TSA's scanning department, Rodney Schroeder, told CNN.
Why is it that i am so disappointed in the male species??...i know i am a man, and i should be lumped in here as well but i dont hate myself.....I dont do dumb things( on purpose) to make myself look stupid but I cannot understand why we as men make ourselves look dumber than we actually are......
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