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Alvarez Gets 11 Life Sentences For Metrolink Crash

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Aug 20, 2008 6:59 pm US/Pacific

Alvarez Gets 11 Life Sentences For Metrolink Crash

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A Los Angeles judge has sentenced a man convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash to 11 consecutive life terms, denouncing him as a remorseless killer.

Superior Court Judge William Pounders said, if he could have, he would have imposed a sentence of "forever" on Juan Alvarez, who will be ineligible for parole.

Alvarez parked his gasoline-soaked SUV on railroad tracks, causing the Metrolink train to derail and strike another Metrolink train traveling in the other direction on January 26th, 2005.

Eleven people died and about 180 were injured.

Pounders spoke of the excruciating suffering of the survivors, and many of them came forward to speak through tears about their lost relatives and the way the crash had changed their lives.

Some demanded that Alvarez, seated at the counsel table facing the judge, turn and look them in the eye as they told him of the havoc he had wrought on their lives.

Alvarez obliged some of the speakers. In some cases, he shook his head when they asked him for responses.

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