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Court orders new sentence for former KSU student in fatal crash

Theurer
Theurer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas appeals court says probation and house arrest was not enough of a sentence for a former Kansas State University student whose drunken driving crash claimed two lives.

The Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a lower court to resentence Miles Theurer. He was 23 on May 14, 2012, when he drove in the wrong lane through a construction zone along Kansas 18 while returning to Manhattan after a night of drinking at a Junction City strip club.

The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports the crash at 2:45 a.m. killed two occupants in the second car.

The three-member appeals panel said the judge erred in applying an incorrect legal standard in departing from the presumptive sentence of 41 months behind bars.

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