22-year-old Matthew Cordle, the Ohio man who confessed in a YouTube video that he killed a man while driving drunk, was sentenced Wednesday to six-and-a-half years in prison and a lifetime suspension of his driver's license.
Matthew Cordle, an Ohio man who confessed in an online video to being responsible for causing a fatal car crash had his court appearance delayed by at least a day. Cordle, expected to give a guilty plea, has already confessed to drinking heavily and driving the wrong way, leading to killing Vincent Candani in the collision.
Carl Pistorius, the brother of Para Olympian Oscar who is involved in a murder case, faces his own legal troubles. This stems from a charge of unlawful, negligent killing for a 2008 road death, "in which a woman motorcyclist sadly lost her life," Kenneth Oldwage, the Pistorius family lawyer said on Sunday. The accident occurred in Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg. The charge of "culpable homicide" was dropped, then reinstated and will be challenged in court, the lawyer told the Associated Press.
