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A 21-year-old Kamas man who was driving drunk last year when he crashed his pickup truck in Summit County and left the body of his passenger in the weeds was sentenced Monday to a year in jail.
Randon Kenneth Robertson, 21, had pleaded guilty in 3rd District Court to second-degree felony manslaughter in the October death of 18-year-old Larry Paul.
On Monday, Judge Piage Petersen ordered Robertson to serve a year in jail — less 210 days he had already served — as part of a three year probation.
Robertson must complete 200 hours of community service, abstain from alcohol and obtain a substance abuse evaluation and treatment.
Robertson said in a plea agreement document that at about 4 a.m. on Oct. 24, after drinking alcohol the night before, he was driving between 70 and 100 mph "in a reckless manner," when he caused Paul's death.
Police found the Paul's body on the ground near a pickup truck that apparently had rolled on State Road 150 just east of Kamas.
The truck belonged to Robertson, whom police found at his home bleeding from what appeared to be a road rash on his shoulder, according to charging documents.
When asked about the wreck, Robertson said he had hurt his arm at a skate park the night before and didn't know who had taken his car; he then filled out a stolen-car report, charges state.
However, others who were at his house told officers that Robertson had driven away with Paul and another man just before 4 a.m., charges state. Robertson and the other man returned an hour later, injured and on foot.
In a follow-up interview, Robertson admitted he had imbibed 10 beers the night before, stopping at 10 p.m., and had taken Brown and Paul in his truck early that morning. He said he was driving very fast and started "taking a turn too sharp while he was looking at and yelling at Paul," police wrote. He then overcorrected and the truck rolled. Robertson and Brown got out of the car and could not find Paul, so they walked home, charges state.
Robertson's license was revoked at the time due to an earlier DUI in Tooele, charges state.
Robertson was initially charged with second-degree felony automobile homicide, third-degree felony failure to stop at a serious-injury accident and several misdemeanors.