Brandon L. Russell
A 27-year-old Janesville man who plead guilty to smoking marijuana before causing the traffic crash that killed a Brodhead woman’s unborn child will spend nearly two decades in prison.
Judge Michael Haakenson on Thursday sentenced Brandon Russell to 18 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision.
Russell is accused of causing a crash on Highway 11 in Orfordville in which a 29-year-old woman lost her unborn baby, and three other children were injured.
As part of a deal with the prosecution, Russell pleaded guilty to homicide of an unborn child by the intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, along with three counts of Operating While Intoxicated causing injury to a child, in exchange for several other charges being dropped.