Jail for driver in crash that killed Wright woman

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) – A man who pleaded no contest to aggravated

vehicular homicide after a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman

from Wright has been sentenced to a year in jail.

     A judge sentenced 46-year-old man Raymond Potts of Hardin,

Mont., on Friday to four to 12 years in prison but then suspended

that in favor of a 12-month jail sentence.

     The jail term is to be followed by six months at a halfway house

and 12 years of probation.

     Prosecutors say Potts ran over 46-year-old Raylene Fischer in

May 2008 along Wyoming 387. Investigators believe Fischer was

walking home from a bar.

     Prosecutors say Potts told officers he had been drinking at a

lounge and remembered hitting something but thought it was an

antelope.

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     Information from: The Gillette News Record – Gillette,

http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com