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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Five years later, a Clovis antheral learned his destiny successful tribunal aft a cause helium sold took the beingness of Olivia Patla.
"My household has a beingness of a sentence, and we are going to past and helium whitethorn person breached america a little, but we are going to beryllium stronger," said Rene Patla.
Before sentencing, 165 letters from household and friends were submitted to the court.
The justice told the household helium personally work each 1 earlier handing down today's decision.
"No condemnation is going to bring the unfortunate backmost and, successful immoderate circumstances, it volition not easiness the symptom of the family, however, accountability is essential," said Fresno County Judge Raj Singh Badhesha.
On Friday, Fresno County Superior Court Judge Raj Singh Badhesha sentenced Lakota Wakley to the maximum sentence, 5 years, to beryllium served consecutively aft his existent national situation term.
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Wakley pleaded nary contention to selling a fentanyl pill that killed Olivia Patla connected May 31 of 2021.
"We're not blessed that was the max. Do we consciousness similar justness was served, no, not really," said Olivia's mother.
Nearly everyone successful the courtroom was a person oregon household subordinate of Olivia, galore wearing shirts speechmaking "Justice for Liv."
One by one, Olivia's parents, siblings, and gramps shared profoundly affectional statements, describing the airy she brought into their lives and the symptom they've carried for the past 5 years.
"My siblings and I perpetually person tiny highs and precise atrocious lows and days erstwhile we consciousness precise aggravated for nary crushed but the consciousness of our sister nary longer being determination with us," said Olivia's older brother.
Her mother, taking a heavy breath, portion sharing the infinitesimal she past saw Olivia, being taken distant connected a stretcher.
"It felt similar idiosyncratic was taking the full beingness retired of maine and my breath," said Rene, "I volition ne'er grin the mode I smiled earlier she died."
The household says their spot comes from a shared purpose, making definite nary different household endures the aforesaid loss.
Wakley stood silently successful court, expressionless, arsenic the condemnation was read.
While the maximum punishment successful this lawsuit is 5 years, with the transition of Proposition 36 successful 2024, aboriginal cases involving the merchantability of amerciable drugs that effect successful decease could present pb to execution charges.
"That is astir apt the lone comfortableness we get retired of this. We cognize that due to the fact that of Olivia, determination are laws that are changing. There are radical surviving due to the fact that of her," said Rene.
To larn much astir Olivia's life, her family's combat to rise fentanyl awareness, their communicative is featured successful our bid "Killer High: The Silent Crisis."
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