"Do I think 10 years is enough? Absolutely not, McCannon said. You knew what you were doing was wrong It's the thrill of the drive, the thrill of running from the police. You took their daughter, their cousin, their sister, McCannon added. I just don't like (the sentence), and that's not a reason for me not to approve it. Watson"
"It's not what we thought he deserved for what he did to the victim, but in light of the hung jury, it was a middle ground resolution of the case, said San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe. That's the maximum on the charges he was convicted of. Wagstaffe added that his office was very disappointed with the jury's decision to find Watson guilty of manslaughter instead of murder. We felt the evidence was there to support"
"The sentence came after a jury on May 16 found Watson guilty of felony vehicular manslaughter, but not of second-degree murder. Jurors also found him guilty of felony fleeing a police officer resulting in death, felony hit-and-run resulting in injury to another person, misdemeanor hit-and-run resulting in property damage and misdemeanor trespassing. After the trial, which lasted two weeks, the jury also deadlocked 11-1 on a charge of misdemeanor resisting arrest and 8-4 on a hit-and-run enhancement on the vehicular manslaughter charge."
Adrian Dewitt Marcel Watson, 21, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine plus $52,530 in restitution to the family of Jennifer Bautista Amezcua, who died in the crash. A jury convicted Watson of felony vehicular manslaughter and multiple hit-and-run and fleeing charges, but acquitted him of second-degree murder. The jury deadlocked on misdemeanor resisting arrest and a hit-and-run enhancement, prompting a planned retrial that was later resolved by a prosecutorial agreement. The judge and the district attorney expressed disappointment with aspects of the outcome.
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