Man Jailed in Fatal Hit Skip Asks for Release

Dwayne Reddinger
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Updated: 12/18/2009 6:34 am
A man currently in prison for a fatal hit and run crash that claimed the life of a Hubbard man is asking for judicial release.

Dewayne Redinger appeared in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Thursday asking to be released. He's served one year of a two-year prison term.

Prosecutors said Redinger's pick-up truck struck and killed Michael Brown, 38, who was driving his motorcycle west on State Route 82 on Aug. 16, 2007. Redinger fled the scene and it took several months for troopers to find him.

Brown's widow, Dawn, asked the court not to grant the early release. The judge said he will make a decision sometime next month.

Redinger was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and hit skip. He could have faced five years in prison.
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J From Y Town - 12/18/2009 2:59 PM
If this judge releases this man he will only do so because the guy in prison is white and the man he killed is black. Michael Brown left a widow and several children. The termoil and hardship that has transpired since his death upon his children cannot be described. Mr Brown was wearing a helmet and driving the speed limit when the man who killed him pulled out, hit him and then drove away, leaving Mr Brown to die on the road like an animal. The man who killed Mr Brown attempted to cover up the accident by having the truck repaired and then by disposing of the vehicle with the help of his mother. This was a man who was determined to never be caught for this crime yet the judge, in his infinite wisdom, sentenced him to only two years in prison! Now after one year he is asking to be released and the judge is actually thinking about it! I hope this judge someday loses a family member to a cold hearted killer like Dewayne Redinger who leaves his family member lying in the road like an animal to die and does everything in their power to escape justice as this man has done. And no, I am not black nor am I a family member of the Brown family. I was someone proud to call Michael Brown my friend and I know he would have done the same for me.
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