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Victim Impact Stories
Justice Served
MATTHEW PAETH
Pope County Judge Todd Lambert sentenced 20 year old Matthew Paeth to one year of court supervision to misdemeanor DUI. Katie Lueth, 21, of Philo, Illinois died June 19 of injuries sustained in an ATV crash. Paeth was driving an ATV with Lueth and crashed into another ATV. Lueth was thrown and killed. If completed successfully, court supervision will not lead to a conviction.
LAWRENCE ROWLETT JR.
On October 7, Winnebago County, Illinois Judge Richard Lucas sentenced Lawrence Rowlett Jr., 31, to six months in jail, 2½ years probation and 200 hours of community service for aggravated DUI causing death. The court found “extraordinary circumstances” existed to warrant probation. The defendant was found to have been driving over 70 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone when he hit a tree killing his passenger, Joshua Boomgarden, 26. The defendant's BAC was 0.143.
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