Judge orders drunk driver to visit fatal crash site annually

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Judge orders drunk driver to visit crash site annually

By Jake Rigdon
Wausau Wisconsin Daily Herald

After he's released from prison, Phillip L. Stoeckmann will face a
decade of reminders of the day and place he killed an Oshkosh woman
while driving drunk.

A Marathon County judge Thursday sentenced Stoeckmann, 26, to 41/2
years in prison and 10 years' extended supervision on a charge of
homicide by drunken driving.

As part of his sentence, Stoeckmann must visit the crash site every
year on the anniversary of the fatal crash during his extended
supervision.

"I guess this gives us a little bit of closure, but we're just glad
this is all over with and that he's going away (to prison)," said
Justin Eaton, 24, who was in the car with his mother, Marsha Scolley,
49, on March 13, 2005, when Stoeckmann's car hit their vehicle head-on

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4 1/2 years in prison ain't enough and visiting the crash site is just
silly. This is more coddling.