11/28/12 - A Pinckney woman convicted of providing the whiskey that led to the death of a Durand man will not be getting a new trial the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. They rejected arguments by Lindsay Alice Treanor that her trial attorney was ineffective. As to arguments of prosecutorial misconduct, the panel said that while the prosecutor made statements to the jury that were unsupported by the evidence, there was sufficient evidence to support her conviction and those statements alone did not deprive her of a fair trial. Treanor was found guilty by a local jury in April of 2011 of furnishing alcohol to a minor causing death for providing the alcohol that 18-year-old Bryce Dickinson consumed on November 7th, 2010 while partying with a group of friends at the abandoned Pinckney train depot. He is said to have become belligerent and was put inside a car to sleep it off but was soon found unresponsive. Dickinson was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Treanor was subsequently sentenced to 180 days in the Livingston County Jail and three years of probation but was also ordered to complete substance abuse treatment and pay more than $6,000 in restitution. (jk)
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