On Monday afternoon, June 29th, Judge Robert Pilmer of the Kendall County 23rd Judicial Circuit, Illinois, sentenced a man involved in a hit-and-run accident. Nehemiah Williams, 40, of Aurora, bagged 12 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for the 2018 death of Oswego High School Softball Coach Amanda Stanton, 26.
Judge Pilmer denied motions to reconsider his January ruling and retry the case. During the trial, he entertained testimonies from Kane County police officers, giving details of past DUI cases against Williams. The prosecution presented four felony convictions, but the defense argued that they dated as far back as the 90s.
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They pointed out that the man was a good father, caretaker, worker, and not a habitual lawbreaker. The court also listened to the testimony of the victim’s father, Jerry Stanton. He said that his family and their community suffered from the loss of his daughter, and the pain was so deep he had to quit his job as a softball coach.
Amanda died on the night of June 23rd, 2018, after Williams’ minivan crashed into her vehicle. He fled the scene and did not report the collision. The accident report revealed that a groundskeeper found the woman’s body the next afternoon several feet from Plainfield Road in rural Oswego Township.
The Kendall County State’s Attorney Eric Weis asked the court for a 15-year sentence, but he is satisfied with 12. Williams got nine years for failure to report/leaving the scene of an accident involving death, three years for reckless homicide, and another three for driving with a suspended license.
He will serve the last one and the first concurrently, and the second consecutively. The court also granted him credit for the 268 days already served in the Kendall County Jail.
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