Missoula, MT : Polson woman sentenced for crash that killed boyfriend on Thursday, December, 28th 2017

Missoula County District Court Judge Robert “Dusty” Deschamps started a Thursday sentencing by saying he would not follow the plea agreement in the case.

He called the prosecution's sentence request for a woman who killed her boyfriend in a crash while driving after smoking marijuana “beyond the realm of reasonableness.”

Trai Ann Dewey pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in September under a plea agreement that called for a 30-year sentence to the Department of Corrections with 25 years suspended, a punishment Chief Deputy County Attorney Jason Marks said was in line with other similar cases in Missoula.

“I’m going to go lower,” Deschamps told him. “This is ridiculous in my view. Thirty years?”

The judge said for a first conviction, even a serious felony like Dewey’s, he was known to give fully deferred sentences. He eventually did just that by imposing a six-year deferred sentence on her.

On Feb. 10 around 7 p.m., then 19-year-old Dewey was driving north on U.S. Highway 93 with her boyfriend, 20-year-old Joseph Neal Bremner. According to court records, Dewey swerved her Dodge Durango into oncoming traffic and was T-boned by another vehicle.

Bremner was killed in the wreck.

Dewey later told a Montana Highway Patrol trooper she and Bremner were smoking marijuana before they left Missoula to go to Polson. Marijuana, as well as a broken bottle of malt liquor, were found in the Dodge, according to court documents.

As part of the sentence, Dewey will be required to complete a drug and alcohol treatment program, and cannot drink, use drugs or go into a bar for the duration of her sentence.

On Thursday, both of Bremner’s parents said they wanted Dewey to be given a “second chance,” with his mother saying nothing the judge could do would bring back her son.

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Polson woman sentenced for crash that killed boyfriend