Sentencing for fatal hit-run draws outrage
Photo credit: John Roca | Dennis Hughes, the father of Erika Hughes, talks to media following the the sentencing of Preston Mimms. (Jan. 4, 2013).
A still-grieving father told a Suffolk County Court judge Friday that the sentence he intended to impose on the unlicensed driver who ran over the man's daughter and left her body in the street would lead to more needless deaths.
"He's going to kill someone else," Dennis Hughes said. "It's a travesty, your honor."
Despite the emotional appeal, Judge James Hudson sentenced Preston Mimms,...