Lane Garrison, who was serving prison time for a drunk driving crash that caused the death of 17-year-old Vahagn Setian, was released early this morning.
Garrison, who only served about half of his 40 month sentence for vehicular manslaughter, was granted early release because he had earned enough "good-behavior credits."
The former "Prison Break" star must now report to an in-patient rehab center.
1. REHAB is for quitters!
Posted at 8:45AM on Apr 29th 2009 by Elvis
2. Hope Lane crashes into Nick Hogan and both end up dead. Seriously. It's time. They're both KILLERS!!!!! Maybe John Landis ('The Twilight Zone Movie') will be walking by and try to drag them out. Oh, and Rebecca Gayhart and Brandi Norwood were walking IN the path of the car prior and got struck. lol :-p
Posted at 8:52AM on Apr 29th 2009 by DylanCool sonypspgo@gmail.com
3. While I don't condone drinking and driving as there is absolutely no excuse for it I do have
respect for Lane for stepping up and pleading guilty and taking his punishment. He could've hired
a high priced attorney and plead not guilty and put the victims family through a trial but he didn't.
Good luck on your future Lane.
Posted at 9:34AM on Apr 29th 2009 by mac
4. While I don't condone drinking and driving as there is absolutely no excuse for it I do have
respect for Lane for stepping up and pleading guilty and taking his punishment. He could've hired
a high priced attorney and plead not guilty and put the victims family through a trial but he didn't.
Good luck on your future Lane.
Posted at 9:37AM on Apr 29th 2009 by mac
5. He did his time.............now, let him have a "second" chance!
Posted at 9:59AM on Apr 29th 2009 by Lisa
6. That is just insane! He got off on only 40 months as it was!!! And now he gets out for good behavior?? What about the behavior that put him there in the first place? How about all of the other drivers that have killed someone while DWI/DUI and they are porobably still in prison. I think intoxication manslaughter should be served in full sentence as issued by the court. No "good behavior." Why don't we pull this one, "Well, we realize he killed someone...but he was a victim of circumstance.." Which I have heard before from a jury. Or "He wasn't that intoxicated..." Which I have heard a teacher say after she was on a jury!! She was talking about a case where the suspect was .07, crashed and the crash disfigured the victim. Please don't drink and drive. I don't think he has learned his lesson. The lesson he learned is that if you are famous..it's okay for you to run amok around the world doing what ever you want. It's okay..your fame and or money will get you out of the situation. I think 40 months would have allowed more time for it to set in that he killed someone. This sucks.
Posted at 10:00AM on Apr 29th 2009 by Bart
7. Good luck Lane. Stay sober.
Posted at 10:12AM on Apr 29th 2009 by toni
8. Wow, a whole 1.8 years for vehicular homicide while intoxicated...that tough sentence mus have been really reassuring to the family of the victim.
Posted at 10:17AM on Apr 29th 2009 by Sono
9. Lane did the crime and he served his time, no one is perfect and every one makes mistakes. I actually think he has shown a lot of courage thorugh this ordeal as he was actually man enough to admit what he did where as some other celeb's hire high profile lawyers and get away with their crime
Good luck Lane
Posted at 11:35AM on Apr 29th 2009 by Portugal
10. Wow he killed a human and is released where he will be free to work in the film/tv industry again. He served 20 months, what a darn shame... the system is screwed. The victims life meant nothing. He is so lucky he didn't kill one of my family members. Yet, we hold Micheal Vick to a higher standard. Although I despise Vick for what he did to dogs, it seems the media and general public care more about the dogs then the person Garrison killed.
Posted at 12:14PM on Apr 29th 2009 by ugh
11. As someone who knows the friends of the boy who was killed I can say that there are a lot of angry people out there right now. 40 months was not that long a sentence in the first place. and for those of you who are saying "he did the crime, he served the time" NO. He didn't serve the time. the time was 40 months and he is out in half that. So the life of an only son and brain damage to one of the girls is only worth 20 months in prison and $300,000?(total, not for each family). That is ridiculous and very sad. and for those of you who don't know, he wasn't only drunk. He was also on cocaine. So he deserves to be put away for the full time, if not longer. screw good behavior. he should have exhibited good behavior and judgement before showing up, a 26 year old man, to a high school party and taking underage kids to get alcohol.
Posted at 1:16PM on Apr 29th 2009 by whoknows
12. although the situation is tragic, this is one person took accountability for his actions and did his time.
now, give the dude a second chance........unlike paris, britney, lohan and the entire hogan hillbilly clan.
Posted at 1:21PM on Apr 29th 2009 by NYC123
13. Forty months wasn't much of a sentence for taking a life -- never mind the early release. Where's the justice?
Posted at 1:31PM on Apr 29th 2009 by procter3
14. leave him alone!!!
Posted at 7:24PM on Apr 29th 2009 by m
15. What about all the sober people who kill people??? Dui is a con. Have some coffee America!!
http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2009/04/15/letters/doc49e64ba985e5b778261388.txt
Posted at 11:46PM on Apr 29th 2009 by ennifer
