Grandfather pleads no contest after 8-year-old driver dies
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December 29, 2016
TROY, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas man whose 8-year-old granddaughter was killed in a crash as she drove him home from church has pleaded no contest in her death.
The St. Joseph News-Press (http://bit.ly/2idSD6I ) reports that Dennis Meers, of St. Joseph, entered the plea to an aggravated child endangerment charge last week. Sentencing is set for Feb. 6.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says Cadence Orcutt was killed in November 2015 when the car she was driving plunged down an embankment and overturned in rural Doniphan County. Meers was injured.
Meers previously was sentenced to two years in the...
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