Jason Adams, sent to prison to serve a ten year sentence with half of it suspended for a fatal crash that killed a 23-year-old woman, has been released after just nine months.
Adams was behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Huracan when he slammed into the flood wall on Tchoupitoulas Street in 2016. Kristi Lirette was in the passenger seat and did not survive.
Judge Robin Pittman sentenced him to 10 years in prison, but suspended five years and said he must serve at least three years after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide.
But according to District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, Adams benefited from Louisiana's criminal justice reforms which allowed him to serve 35 percent of his five year sentence, or 21 months, and earn more good-time credit than days actually served.
"State legislators have declared this to be the will of the people," Cannizzaro said. "But I’m not so sure our citizens fully realize these reforms mean some five-year sentences can be deemed complete after just nine months."