Former Prison Break Star Sentenced To Real Prison
Posted October 31, 2007 12:00 pm.
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In a tragic case of life imitating art, a man who played a prisoner on a popular primetime TV show will actually be heading to jail for the next three years.
Lane Garrison, who took the role of young con David ‘Tweener’ Apolskis on the first season of “Prison Break”, has been sentenced to thee years and four months behind real bars, after he was involved in a drunk driving crash last December that killed a teenager.
The 27-year-old lost control of a 2001 Land Rover on an L.A. highway while he was under the influence and the resulting crash led to the death of his passenger, a local high school student. Two other girls in the vehicle survived.
Garrison was facing a seven year term for his actions, but was given half the time instead. The actor stood mute as the judge pronounced the sentence and he was immediately taken away to begin serving it.
His only words came before the final judgment, when he apologized to the family of the victim. “I’m sick of my own behaviour that night,” he told them. “This remorse is genuine. I feel it every day.”
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