Judge: Convicts Must Pay Hit-and-Run Victim's Heirs $840,000

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Judge: Convicts Must Pay Hit-and-Run Victim's Heirs $840,000

By JEFF AMY, ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON, Miss. — Feb 29, 2016, 6:32 PM ET

A judge Monday ordered four white men convicted in the June 2011 beating and rundown death of a black autoworker in Mississippi to pay his heirs $840,000.

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves ordered 24-year-old Dylan Wade Butler, 23-year-old Deryl Paul Dedmon, 23-year-old John Aaron Rice and 26-year-old William Kirk Montgomery to make restitution to the beneficiaries of James Craig Anderson.

Anderson's death came on the last of a series of forays to what the group called "Jafrica" — a combination of Jackson and Africa — to assault black people. It ended in a hotel parking lot where the group spotted Anderson, who appeared to be intoxicated. Rice and Dedmon beat Anderson as Butler, Montgomery and others watched. As Dedmon left in his truck, he ran over Anderson, inflicting fatal injuries recorded on a hotel security camera.

All four pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and hate crime charges, and the earliest is scheduled to be released in 2018. The men share the liability, but each could be required to pay the whole amount if others make no contributions.

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[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Good.

Those rotten little shits should be in prison for life. Fucking murderers.

[jonno99]

2. Yes.

[JimDandy]

6. It's unfathomable to me how anyone could do that to another person,

let alone someone they didn't even know. I hope restitution can't be dismissed in bankruptcy.

[dlwickham]

3. I don't understand how someone could do this

the murders not the ruling

How screwed up do you have to be before you start hunting people

[bluestateguy]

4. And that's good

but with these bums in prison for the rest of their lives, how much of that money do we think will actually get paid to the victim's family?

Somehow I doubt these four Rhodes scholars have big assets that can be liquidated.

[Recursion]

9. One of them is scheduled for release in 2018

That's outrageous, but he may have just been an accessory, or he may have rolled on the other two (I don't know the case well).

[bluestateguy]

10. Ok

So they get, maybe, the money he makes flipping burgers. If he can ever get a job, that is.

My guess is that the family will be lucky to ever get 10% of that money.

[Jenny_92808]

5. I am disappointed to read

in the article that one of them is getting out in 2018. The crime was horrifically evil - why the short sentence. If the races were reversed and the perps were black, they would be on death row, no doubt.

[Angry Dragon]

7. I agree

[JI7]

8. released in 2018 ? why ?

How long are others serving ?