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.
