A MAN THAT SERIOUSLY INJURED TWO VICTIMS IN A DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT ON ZERO ROAD LAST MAY WAS SENTENCED THIS MORNING IN NATRONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT. 71-YEAR-OLD MAURICE JEPSON WILL BE SPENDING THE NEXT NINE TO ELEVEN YEARS IN PRISON. THE COURT ROOM WAS VERY EMOTIONAL THIS MORNING. THE THREE VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS GIVEN MADE BOTH SIDES TEAR UP. THE PROSECUTION ESTIMATES JEPSON'S CAR WAS TRAVELING ABOUT 47 MILES PER HOUR WHEN IT STRUCK THE OTHER VEHICLE LEADING TO THE SERIOUS INJURY OF A 44-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL TEACHER AND AN 11-YEAR-OLD BOY. BOTH WERE RUSHED INTO SURGERY THAT EVENING. POLICE RECORDS SHOW THAT JEPSON HAD A BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT OF .17, THREE HOURS AFTER THE COLLISION. THE PROSECUTION ALSO STATED JEPSON HAD BEEN SEEN DRINKING IN PUBLIC AND ALSO HAD BEEN DRIVING AGAIN SINCE THE ACCIDENT. STILL THE HUSBAND OF THE INJURED SCHOOL TEACHER WAS SURPRISED BY THE LENGTH OF THE SENTENCE, SOMETHING THE DEFENSE HAS BEEN HOPING FOR. JEPSON HAD HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS DURING MOST OF THE SENTENCING AND SAID HE WAS SORRY AND WISHED THERE WAS A WAY HE COULD FIX THIS. THE VICTIMS FAMILIES JUST CALLED K2 NEWS ABOUT AN HOUR AGO AND TOLD ME QUOTE "OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO MR. JEPSON AND HIS FAMILY, BUT JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED."
