Lane Garrison Gets Serious Jailtime For Deadly Accident
Well it’s all over but the crying for former “Prison Break” star Lane Garrison.
The actor was convicted of drunk driving charges that led to the death of 17-year-old boy Vahagn Setian when Garrison crashed his car after picking up the boy and two teenage girls at a gas station earlier in the evening.
Garrison accompanied the three teens to a party and was seen drinking throughout the evening and blood tests revealed cocaine in his system. Garrison, 24, used extremely poor judgment on more than one occasion that fateful evening, including but not limited to, drinking and driving, ingesting illegal drugs and ultimately, choosing to party with underage minors. The judge also stated as much when passing down sentence on Garrison. From the TMZ report:
As he sentenced him, Judge Elden Fox told Lane he thought he was a human being who made a very bad mistake — and that he committed a crime and devastated three families.
Fox told Garrison, “I think you are truly remorseful,” but sentenced him to prison because “the public needs to know crimes like this need to be punished and, unfortunately, you have to be the messenger.” The sentence was based on Garrison’s lack of prior criminal history and that he admitted responsibility, pleaded guilty right away and has offered the families financial assistance.
I agree with Judge Fox, unlike so many of his peers, Garrison appeared to understand the gravity of the situation immediately and seemed devastated by the outcome of the tragic mistakes he made. Not just for his own mess, but for the pain he caused the families of the other three teens. As witnessed:
Before sentencing, a highly emotional Garrison told the victims’ families he was “genuinely remorseful” and “sickened” by his behavior that night.
Obviously, this whole situation is truly awful and Garrison must pay for the consequences of his actions, but let’s not let off those kids so easy. They also broke the law that evening, by drinking underage, and then clearly ignoring good common sense by getting in a car with a person they witnessed drinking, who also at some point, was using cocaine.
Just because someone is a celebrity doesn’t mean you throw all the things your parents and teachers warned you about out the window. In fact, its probably a good idea to use extra caution with celebs, as many of them seem to possess far less brainpower than the average person.
To be honest, I feel sorry for everyone involved, including Lane who had to learn the hardest lesson of them all. Above is the Lane Garrison PSA for drunk driving. Very sad. Very real.
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Yes. Couldn’t agree more.
Comment by k — October 31, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
[…] Being tough on your kid’s can be really difficult and takes a lot of effort, but better they learn valuable mistakes BEFORE they make deadly ones that cost them or someone else their life. Just ask Lane Garrison. […]
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