Driver Gets Probation In Fatal Crash - DUI Tampa

DUI Tampa - "[A young man] was sentenced today to six years' probation in a 2002 traffic crash that killed his 16-year- old passenger in a case beset with problems for prosecutors. [He] pleaded no contest to manslaughter by culpable negligence in the death of his friend. [He] had faced up to 15 years in prison. But authorities cited two factors in the lenient sentence: [The victim's] parents opposed jail time for [him] and prosecutors' key witness would have been a former Polk County sheriff's sergeant who is in prison for giving illegal medical exams. "