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Vehicular homicide cases often result in no jail time
Area incidents examples of prosecution
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Sentences with little or no jail time are not rare in vehicular homicide cases, as illustrated by recent sentencings from Chatham and Effingham counties and earlier cases in Bulloch and Candler counties.Chatham jazz legend Internationally known Savannah jazz bassist Ben Tucker, 82, died June 4, 2013, when the golf cart he was driving on Hutchinson Island was hit by a car driven by Robert William Martin, 54, of Spicewood, Texas. Prosecutors charged Martin with felony vehicular homicide. At first he said that he had been slowing down to 50 mph, but evidence that Savannah-Chatham police investigators collected from the his Chrysler 300 showed it was traveling at more than 90 mph just 2.2 seconds before the collision, Savannah news media reported.
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