51 Years in Prison for a Car Crash
Sheila Dixon used to collect newspaper clippings: Officer fined in traffic death. Driver who killed 5 to serve 1 year. Bishop gets probation for hit and run. She put them in a storage box alongside the transcripts from her son Justin Dixon’s trial. In 2006, he was sentenced to more than 51 years in prison after he drank at a Phoenix bar and crashed his car. She never thought his sentence was fair and hoped that one day something might change. But 14 years is a long time to hope. Fifty-one is even longer.