Hero in war gets help after DUI manslaughter conviction in Florida

Marine with PTSD, brain trauma, pleads guilty to DUI manslaughter for Florida crash
TAMARA LUSH
Associated Press
First Posted: May 10, 2012

TAMPA, Fla. — A former Marine who suffered severe brain trauma in combat has pleaded guilty in a fatal drunken-driving accident in Florida that highlighted the military's diagnosis of cases like his.

Scott Sciple (SY-puhl) pleaded guilty Thursday in Tampa to DUI manslaughter and DUI with personal injury in a 2010 wreck that killed a 48-year-old father.

Sciple's family and lawyer blamed the crash on his injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned three Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for heroism.
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Bliss Soldier Pleads Guilty On Intoxicated Manslaughter Charge

Bliss Soldier Pleads Guilty On Intoxicated Manslaughter Charge
KFOXtv.com
Monica Balderrama-KFOX News Reporter
Posted: 2:03 pm MDT July 20, 2009
Updated: 3:04 pm MDT July 20, 2009

EL PASO, Texas -- The Fort Bliss soldier accused of killing a 19-year-old Burgess graduate while drinking and driving pleaded guilty on Monday during his intoxicated manslaughter trial. The trial moved forward to the punishment phase where the jury will decide the soldier's fate.

Staff Sgt. Edison Bayas, 37, waived his right to a jury trial when he pleaded guilty Monday morning. But the jury still has to decide his punishment, which could range from two to 20 years in prison.

As KFOX reported in December 2007, 19-year-old Valerie Talamantes was stopped at a red light on Montana and Hawkins and Bayas allegedly came barreling through and crashed into the back of Talamantes' car.
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Was he self-medicating? Does he have PTSD? Your guess is as good as mine. The outcome is a soldier is facing jail and a young woman is now dead. A family is grieving while another family must be trying to come to terms with what happened. Could it have been avoided?

$10M lottery winner gets prison in fatal crash

$10M lottery winner gets prison in fatal crash
Aug. 16, 2008 09:31 AM
Associated Press
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A man who won $10 million in a California lottery game has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed three people.

Thomas Turnour had pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and causing injury while driving intoxicated.

The winner of a SuperLotto game in 2001 was sentenced Friday in San Bernardino.

Authorities say the 52-year-old man from Victorville was driving a pickup truck that hit a car stopped at a red light in San Bernardino three years ago. Three people inside the first car died.

His attorney says Turnour essentially "turned over everything he has" to settle a lawsuit filed by the victims' families.
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