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Judi Lynn

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Tue Dec 31, 2024, 12:25 PM Tuesday

Senator's son sentenced to 28 years for killing a North Dakota deputy during a car chase

Source: Associated Press

By Associated Press
4 minute read
Updated 11:18 AM EST, Tue December 31, 2024

The adult son of North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer was sentenced to serve 28 years in prison Monday in connection with a wild chase in which he fled from a hospital and drove into a deputy’s vehicle, killing the deputy.

Ian Cramer, 43, pleaded guilty in September to all of the charges against him, including homicide while fleeing a peace officer, preventing arrest, reckless endangerment, fleeing an officer and drug- and driving-related offenses. Those charges related to a December 6, 2023, chase and crash that killed Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Martin, 53.

State District Judge Bobbi Weiler handed down the sentence of 38 years with 10 years suspended, three years of probation and credit for over a year served in jail. She also included recommended treatment for addiction and mental health. But he likely won’t serve the full 28 years, the judge said.

“The (state) Department of Corrections has their own policy on how much time you’re going to serve,” Weiler said. “These are not mandatory minimums, which means that you’re probably going to serve a small portion of that 28 years and be out on parole, so that’ll … give you an opportunity to have a second chance that Deputy Martin does not have, nor does his family have.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/us/ian-cramer-sentenced-north-dakota-deputy-killed/index.html





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https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/senator-cramer-says-putin-should-reveal-information-on-hunter-biden/5008779
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Senator's son sentenced to 28 years for killing a North Dakota deputy during a car chase (Original Post) Judi Lynn Tuesday OP
GOP Senator EXPOSED after Son SENTENCED to 35 YEARS Judi Lynn Tuesday #1
Actual time served dependent on bribes paid? Hope Hunter and his family have a happy new year celebration. cbabe Tuesday #2
Why suspend the ten years? JMCKUSICK Tuesday #3
I'm not going to blame the senator for what his adult son did. JohnnyRingo Tuesday #4

cbabe

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2. Actual time served dependent on bribes paid? Hope Hunter and his family have a happy new year celebration.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 12:56 PM
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JohnnyRingo

(19,468 posts)
4. I'm not going to blame the senator for what his adult son did.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 04:27 PM
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No, I'm going to charge him with 2nd degree hypocrisy with a specification of committing the offense while being a republican.
No sympathy for his kid. I wonder if daddy pulled some strings that paroles him early after killing a cop. That's not a string, that's a rope.

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