Biddle: Donte Stallworth's light sentence doesn't fit deadly crime

By Joe Biddle, The Tennessean

Originally published 07:11 a.m., June 18, 2009
Updated 07:11 a.m., June 18, 2009

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy certainly put the subject up for debate when he accepted a plea bargain between Browns wide receiver Donté Stallworth and the family of the deceased Mario Reyes.

Reyes was a 59-year-old crane operator who was killed after being struck by Stallworth's Bentley early in the morning of March 14. Reyes was crossing a causeway on his way to catch a bus.

Stallworth stopped, was judged to have an alcohol level of .126, well over the legal limit.

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