Stacey Graham, now 40, was driving drunk when he swerved off a South Anchorage road in 2013, striking and killing Jordyn Durr and Brooke McPheters, both 15, as they were walking on a sidewalk.
Alaska Supreme Court tosses highest-ever sentence for vehicular homicide, in case of drunk driver who killed teens in 2013The seal of the state of Alaska hangs on April 19, 2018, behind the dais where Alaska Supreme Court justices normally hear cases in the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage.
Graham later pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, and a judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison, with eight years suspended. As the Supreme Court noted in, it was the highest-ever sentence in Alaska for an unintentional vehicular homicide. But Graham appealed the sentence, and the state Court of Appeals decided Graham should be restenced. State prosecutors appealed that decision, and the Supreme Court has now also ordered Graham to be resentenced.
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