NORTHWOOD – A Kensett man who caused the death of a Minnesota man as the two raced their Corvettes down a rural Worth county road in 2012 will have his prison sentence reconsidered by a judge.
Judge Gregg Rosenbladt last week scheduled a sentence reconsideration hearing for 48-year-old Michael Chodur for December 8th. The 10-year prison sentence he is now serving at the Iowa Medical & Classification Center could be upheld by the judge or a new sentence could be imposed.
Michael Scott Chodur plead guilty on November 27, 2013 to a charge of felony B vehicular homicide and was sentenced on March 3, 2014 by Rosenbladt to 10 years in prison and a fine of $1,000.
Chodur was driving a 1980 corvette on the evening of September 2, 2012, and was following another 1980 corvette driven by Lynn Maynard Weedman of Glenville, Minnesota. Both vehicles were eastbound on A39, west of Nuthatch, when the vehicle driven by Chodur rear ended the vehicle driven by Weedman. The vehicle driven by Weedman entered the north ditch and caught fire, coming to rest on its wheels, facing west in the north ditch. The vehicle driven by Chodur came to rest in the middle of the highway, facing east, where it also caught fire.
Both men were injured in the accident. Weedman was hospitalized in Iowa City and later died.
SENTENCE WILL BE RECONSIDERED
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