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Man to be sentenced for drunk driving fatal crash
Posted: 03.08.2013 at 10:08 AM
Meghan Lane

Meghan is a Live at Sunrise anchor.

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Damien Bryan (photographed) was found guilty of killing two people in a 2011 drunk driving crash.   / File
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A Jefferson City man found guilty of killing two people in a drunk driving crash will learn his fate Friday afternoon.

Police said on August 31, 2011, Damien Bryan caused a car crash on Rumsey Lane when he tried to drive across Route C.

A Kansas woman and a Russellville man were killed as a result of that crash.

In September 2012, a mistrial was called in Damien Bryan's first trial in Cole County Court because of a piece of information given during testimony by a drug testing official.

The officer gave information regarding Bryan's prior offenses, which the jury was not supposed to hear unless given by the defendant himself during testimony.

After a request from public defender Heather Vodnansky, the judge agreed to move the trial to Camden County.

In October 2012 the Camden County jury found Damien Bryan guilty of two-counts of second-degree murder and driving while intoxicated as an aggravated offender.

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