NOVEMBER 12, 2008 — John Joseph Taskey Jr., 47, of La Mesa, on parole for his fifth drunken-driving conviction, was given a sentence of 15 years to life in prison today at a sentencing hearing in San Diego Superior Court. Taskey pleaded guilty last month to second degree murder charges for a freeway fatality accident on September 13, 2007. In the crash, Taskey hit a Ford Focus near West Mission Bay Drive on westbound Interstate 8, killing Rosa Degerman, 75. Degerman died as a result of her injuries the day after the accident. Taskey’s five previous DUI convictions dated back to 1997.
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