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Tinner back in court over restorative justice sentence

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  A woman who caused a fatal accident on Highway 133 last summer is raising questions about her sentence. Christine Tinner must complete 360 hours of community service as part of her punishment for accidentally killing one person and injuring another in a car crash.

Attorney Dan Shipp says Tinner wants to focus on creating an app that helps people avoid falling asleep at the wheel, which is what she believes caused the accident. “Christine is going to be doing a lot of work on a computer. There’s not going to be somebody looking over her to be certain that she spends three hours there and seven hours here,” says Shipp. “What you’re going to have to do is look at the goal that’s going to be completed.”

Right now Shipp says there’s confusion about whether that would address the community service requirement and exactly how to quantify it. He will be in court Friday, asking a judge to help figure that out. He and Tinner say the community service hours so far don’t seem to be meeting a restorative justice requirement, arguing that counseling and other activities haven’t been productive.

 

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