After tears, apologies, driver gets 6 years for DWI death
By Craig Kapitan, San Antonio Express News
Updated 11:32 p.m., Thursday, January 26, 2012
Intoxication manslaughter defendant Robert Gabriel Maycott and his family offered tears, apologies and photographs from past missionary trips to Mexico before asking jurors Thursday to consider probation for causing the death of a fellow motorist four years ago.
Jurors instead ordered a six-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine.
Maycott, 25, had a blood alcohol level of at least .15 — nearly twice the legal limit — when he swerved his pickup into oncoming traffic along Loop 1604 in South Bexar County in December 2007. The truck hit another vehicle head-on, killing motorist Manuel Trujillo, 66.
The defendant testified Thursday that his trip to the Paradise strip club the night before and the roughly eight or nine beers that followed were an anomaly — one of only several times in his life that he had imbibed.
“I just wasn't raised that way,” he said, weeping. “My actions that night were pathetic, to say the least. ... I know I made a very selfish decision that night, and I will never forgive myself for what I did because I took a good man's life.”
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