Former UNC tennis player sentenced to prison for DWI
Posted Sep 16, 2009
Christopher Kearney, a former UNC-Chapel Hill tennis player, will spend the next year in prison after pleading guilty this week to injuring two fellow students in a drunken-driving crash last fall. Kearney returned from his home state of California to make the plea and will serve 10 to 12 months with the N.C. Department of Correction.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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