A 36-year-old man received a four-year term Wednesday for being drunk when he caused a wrong-way collision that killed a Winona State University sophomore in a second vehicle last winter in southeastern Minnesota.
Adam S. Anderson of Winona was sentenced in Winona County District Court after agreeing to plead guilty to criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular operation in connection with the head-on crash Feb. 19 at the intersection of Hwy. 61 and Hwy. 43 in Winona that killed Hannah A. Goman, 20, of Stevens Point, Wis.
With credit served in jail since his arrest, Anderson is expected to serve two years and eight months in prison and the balance on supervised release.
Anderson entered a Norgaard plea, meaning he admits being guilty of the allegations but does not recall the circumstances of the crash.
A test taken soon after the collision showed he had a blood alcohol content of 0.16% , at least twice the legal limit for driving in Minnesota, court records disclosed.
The prosecution had wanted Anderson to be sentenced to a four-year term; the defense argued for local confinement, work release privileges and probation.
Defense attorney Marsh Halberg wrote to the court last week that Anderson had complied with all of the conditions of his release from jail after posting bond. Halberg also said his client was on an alcohol monitor, "which requires him to blow in to the machine several times a day."
In a statement filed with the court last week, Anderson wrote, "I cannot comprehend the misery I inflicted on the Goman family and the feeling caused by this senseless death.
