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Judge issues unusual sentence for man who killed Henry County teen

Summer Lee was killed in a multi-vehicle wreck on I-75 in Henry County in August. Tractor-trailer driver Daniel Crane who rear-ended her was convicted of vehicular homicide and sentenced to carry Lee’s photo for the length of the probation as one of his punishments. (Family photo)
Summer Lee was killed in a multi-vehicle wreck on I-75 in Henry County in August. Tractor-trailer driver Daniel Crane who rear-ended her was convicted of vehicular homicide and sentenced to carry Lee’s photo for the length of the probation as one of his punishments. (Family photo)
By Nathan Harris
July 7, 2017

Senior Judge Rusty Carlisle issued an unusual sentence to a man who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide last month.

The judge said he wants to make sure Daniel Crane remembers his victim.

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“I wasn’t doing it to humiliate the man. I thought, it wouldn’t harm anyone, and it might let the family at ease,” Carlisle said.

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