A state judge hammered 24-year-old Justin Amorin today with a 10-year prison sentence for a 2007 Mililani car racing crash that killed a 17-year-old girl and mentally disabled another teenager.

After hearing emotional, anguished testimony from relatives and friends of the victims, Circuit Judge Karen Ahn ordered Amorin to serve back-to-back five year terms for negligent homicide and assault.
Amorin was convicted of the offenses in a jury trial but was acquitted of a more serious manslaughter charge.
His lawyer, Reginald Minn, asked Ahn for a sentence of one to four years prison term because he was a 21-year-old youthful offender at the time of the crash.
But Deputy Prosecutor Sean Sanada said Amorin was racing his car with a friend’s vehicle at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour on residential Mililani streets before crashing into a tree.
One passenger in Amorin’s car, Gillian Badua, 17, was killed and another, Gavin Watson, received irreversible brain injuries.
Jillian Badua’s mother, Michaele, brother, Barrett, and grandmother, Patricia Kalima, spoke about the devastation her death has caused the family.
Watson’s mother, Marcie Watson, also addressed the court.
The driver of the second car, Bernard DeCoito Jr., is scheduled to go to trial next year on a manslaughter charge.