Judge apologizes for hit-and-run sentence
Even the judge acknowledged the sentence wasn't tough enough. Sean Patrick Armstrong, accused of striking a bicyclist with his pickup last February in south Charlotte and then fleeing the scene, will spend no more than a year in prison. His victim, Brian Hanley, suffered a traumatic brain injury and remains in a wheelchair. Hanley suffered head trauma and a broken pelvis, leg and ribs, spending weeks in a coma. "Brian has had to relearn how to breathe, eat, see, speak, sit. And it has taken him almost a year to be able to do those basic things," Brian Hanley's fiancé Laurie Griffin said. "He cannot walk, he does not remember the house he lived in, and he needs full-time care. "Not only did you take away life as he knew it, but you took away a father from two little boys. You took away their childhood. The youngest won't even ride his bike anymore."
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