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Thursday, December 9, 2010

GRAND HAVEN, MI Sentencing Delayed in Unlicensed Woman's Case

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(WHTC News) - A 48-year-old Holland woman has called a proverbial time out on learning her fate.

Before Angel Heisler was to be sentenced by Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge Ed Post on Monday, she asked for a week's recess in order to reconsider a plea deal that she had agreed to with prosecutors. Heisler had pleaded no contest six weeks ago to charges of vehicular homicide and driving with a suspended license causing injury, with a 15-year felony count of driving with a suspended license causing death dismissed.

The case stems from a June 9th incident in Holland Township in which Heisler, who had moved to Michigan from Illinois a year ago but apparently never applied for a drivers' license here, was attempting to turn left from 136th Avenue near Riley Street into a driveway, but pulled in front of a motorcycle heading in the opposite direction. The subsequent collision killed the biker, 49-year-old Bob Wright, and seriously injured his passenger, 34-year-old Lisa Dagsen. Heisler was driving on a suspended Illinois license at the time.

If she doesn't change her plea, Heisler could face up to seven years in prison when Post reconvenes his sentencing hearing next Monday.