Hit-And-Run Driver’s Sentence Includes Insurance Fraud Time
By Rob Shikina, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | |
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Franklyn, 31, a former Navy officer, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for failing to render aid to
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Instead of paying Franklyn, the insurance company notified state officials, who charged Franklyn with insurance fraud and attempted theft.
Defense attorney
He said Franklyn's judgment was impaired because he sustained a severe mental disorder in the crash and has been diagnosed as having severe guilt, remorse and survivor's grief.
"It's this type of a mindset that is thinking about doing a good thing without really thinking through what he's doing in order to get the seed money," he said. "I don't think the family of Mariah would want that type of money to build something like this."
Franklyn pleaded no contest to insurance fraud and attempted theft and was sentenced Friday to two five-year terms to run at the same time as his 10 years for fleeing the scene.
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