GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – After a four-week delay, the fate of a 41-year-old Holland Township man was decided on Monday.
On November 20th, Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge Jon Hulsing postponed a sentencing hearing for Cameron Burrows after receiving what he called “significant information” the weekend before. In court on Monday, it was learned that Burrows had been involved in a 1992 snowmobile crash as a teenager in which another teen was killed.
Hulsing wanted time to go over that information before deciding what to do with Burrows, who had pleaded no contest in October to reckless driving causing death and reckless driving causing serious impairment charges stemming from a crash last January at the intersection of Business 196 and 104th Avenue near Zeeland that killed 65-year-old Sandra Kay DeBoer of Zeeland and seriously injuring her 10-year-old grandson that had been sitting beside her.
Prosecutors claim that Burrows, who had a lengthy driving and criminal record stemming back over a couple of decades, had driven through a red light at about 70 miles per hour and slammed into DeBoer’s vehicle. As a four-time habitual offender, Burrows was sentenced to between nine and 40 years in prison, the most that he could have received.
