Jan. 12 driver pleads guilty

From the Sun Herald:

GULFPORT, Miss. - A college student whose alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when he was in a crash that killed six friends has been sentenced to a year of house arrest.

Chris Rutland, 21, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty Thursday before a Harrison County circuit courtroom of friends and relatives of the victims, who were graduates of Mercy Cross High School in Biloxi.

Allen Martel, the only surviving passenger, was among those who begged the judge for mercy.

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