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LEE COUNTY | RECKLESS HOMICIDE CASE
Dixon man gets 3 years in prison In December, Shomaker pleaded guilty in dragging death case BY CHRISTI WARREN
DIXON – A Dixon man who pleaded guilty in December to reckless homicide was sentenced to 3 years in prison Wednesday. In June, Kimberly Landwer was dragged for about 20 feet after she reached into the passenger side window of 19-year-old Keith J. Shomaker’s car as he continued to drive. Landwer, 25, fell, hitting her head on the pavement in the 100 block of East Seventh Street. She later died at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria from her injuries.
Shomaker was apparently using drugs around the time of the incident. Reckless homicide, a Class 3 felony, carries a maximum prison sentence of 5 years. Before announcing his decision, Judge Ron Jacobson delicately explained his reasoning, walking through the process that he took to get to his ruling. Most important, it seemed, was Shomaker’s history of drug abuse. During Tuesday’s hearing, Lee County State’s Attorney Anna Sacco-Miller brought up the fact that Shomaker attended an in-patient drug
sentencing, everyone is presumed innocent You’re actually until proved to be guilty being given an beyond a reasonable opportunity to doubt, which is why make changes in Jacobson hinged the majority of his sentence your life. What Keith J. on Shomaker’s addiction happened can Shomaker to drugs. Sentenced to never be erased. ... “Drug habits are 3 years in prison At this point, you’re extremely difficult to for reckless at a very critical shake and extremely homicide, a difficult to deal with,� moment in your life. Lee County Judge Class 3 felony Ron Jacobson Jacobson said. And because of that, in your life,� the judge Shomaker he said, it would be “incorrect said. “What happened can is in prison, he consider taking and wrong to consider [the never be erased. ... At this part in the prison’s drug treatdefendant] for probation.� point, you’re at a very critical ment program, and take the “You’re actually given an moment in your life.� opportunity to make positive opportunity to make changes Jacobson asked that while life changes.
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