Sills v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In May 2008, twenty-three-year-old Dustin Sills was driving a car that he had taken without the owner’s permission. Sills lost control of the car and struck a tree. Four of the seven passengers in the car were seriously injured. Fifteen-year-old Megan Bass was killed in the collision. Subsequent testing revealed that Sills’s blood-alcohol content was .10%.

¶ 2. Sills was indicted for DUI manslaughter and four counts of DUI mayhem. In April 2009, Sills pled guilty to DUI manslaughter and one count of DUI mayhem. The prosecution agreed that it would not pursue the…