John Steven Dick, 47, was given 18 years' probation Oct. 15 for
first-degree manslaughter after he was driving drunk and slammed into the
back of a disabled car along the Cimarron Turnpike.

The December 1997 crash killed Charles Arthur Douglass, 44, of Tulsa, left
his three children fatherless and his wife a widow. Douglass' wife and
children all lived through the crash. Dick, whose blood-alcohol content was
more than twice the legal limit and who had a prior DUI conviction, was
ordered to pay the family $151,000 in restitution.

David Eugene Littlesun, 31, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter
while DUI and ordered to serve one year in the county jail and seven years'
probation for the 1996 death of Sean Conover. He also was ordered to visit
annually the grave of the 19-year-old whose death he caused while driving
drunk in Payne County.

His blood-alcohol content was 0.29 when he slammed into the back of the
parked car in which Conover was sitting.

Michael Hein, then 20, in 1994 was sentenced to five years' probation by a
Kay County judge after he pleaded guilty to a manslaughter DUI involving a
crash that killed his friend, a passenger in his vehicle. He also was
ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and not use alcohol,
reports stated.

Douglas Brian Wyer, a 40-year-old Jenks firefighter, in 1989 crashed into a
car carrying Claudia McCumber and Randy Perkins, killing both. Wyer pleaded
no contest to first-degree manslaughter charges which contended that he was
driving drunk.

A judge gave Wyer a five-year deferred sentence and a 10-year deferred
sentence, meaning that he will have no conviction on his record if the
probation is successfully completed.

Kimberly Ann Goody, then 25, was convicted in Payne County in 1993 of
driving drunk and smashing into a motorcycle that was driven by an off-duty
Oklahoma State University police officer, Brent Ray Daniel, 24. She was
sentenced to 25 years in prison, with 15 of it to be served on probation.
She was released on probation in 1997 after serving almost four years
behind bars.

James Wesley Carpenter was sentenced by a jury to three 50-year prison
terms. He drove drunk and killed three children who were collecting cans
for Christmas money along a highway south of Tahlequah in 1984. Carpenter
had several prior DUIs.

A judge ordered the sentences to run consecutively, ensuring that
Carpenter, now 66, likely will die behind bars.

"The insensitive nature of that one had a lot to do with it," then-judge
William Bliss said.

Checked-by: Pat Dolan