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by: swldx...@gmail.com - Wed, 8 Dec 2021 17:26 UTC

USA shows the way again for sentencing.

A Las Vegas man who was driving a minivan when a passenger leaned out a window and fatally struck a cyclist has been sentenced to up to 26 years in prison.

Rodrigo Cruz, 24, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in September to reckless driving and failing to stop at the scene of the 2020 incident in which Michelle Weissman was struck while riding her bike.

District Judge Jacqueline Bluth sentenced Cruz to 10 to 26 years in prison, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Cruz’s minivan veered toward Weissman and passenger Giovanni Medina Barajas, 20, reached out to knock her down. The impact made him fall out the window, and both were killed.

Cruz's vehicle earlier nearly struck two pedestrians, and Chief Deputy District Attorney Michelle Fleck said Cruz showed “clear disregard" for others.

Cruz read a letter of apology and said he took full responsibility for his actions, but the victim's husband, Lonny Weissman, said it was “”completely atrocious" that Cruz wasn't convicted of murder.

Defense attorney Craig Hendricks said Cruz and Barajas were engaged in “some sort of dumb, childish prank” but that he didn't believe Cruz understood that Barajas was trying to hit the cyclist.

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