Kellie Lewis pleads guilty in drunken-driving death of jailer
Kellie Lewis had three DWI convictions before she killed Tommy Lamkin.
Posted: January 26, 2012 - 11:30am
By LOGAN G. CARVER
LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
A habitual drunken driver agreed Thursday to a plea bargain, resulting in a 40-year sentence for causing the death of an off-duty jailer in 2010.
Kellie Lewis pleaded guilty to murder, days before the case was scheduled to go to trial in the 140th District Court.
Lewis had a blood alcohol concentration of more than three times the legal threshold to drive in Texas when she swerved across an interstate median and slammed into 36-year-old Tommy Lamkin’s vehicle in October 2010.
Under Texas law, a person who kills someone while committing a felony can be charged with felony murder.
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