Before being sentenced to 6.5 years, Ohio DUI YouTube confessor Matthew Cordle spoke in court, saying "it should have been me " that died in the fatal accident.
By Daniella Silva, NBC News
Matthew Cordle, the Ohio man who confessed in a YouTube video that he killed a man while driving drunk was sentenced to six and a half years in prison Wednesday.
The 22-year-old will serve two consecutive sentences of six months, for operating a vehicle while impaired, and six years for aggravated vehicle homicide, Franklin County Court Judge David W. Fais said.
He was also fined $1075 plus court costs, to be deferred until Cordle's release form prison. he received a lifetime suspension of his driving privileges.
Cordle made national headlines last month when he posted a three and a half minute video on YouTube Sept. 3 acknowledging his guilt in the fatal crash in June, and calling for a public plea to stop others from drinking and driving and repeating his mistake.
"My name is Matthew Cordle, and on June 22nd, 2013, I hit and killed Vincent Canzani. This video will act as my confession,” he says in the video that made national headlines.
In the video, Cordle described how he "completely blacked out" after a night of drinking and hit and killed Vincent Canzani, 61, a Navy veteran, at about 2:45 a.m. on Interstate 670 near Columbus, Ohio.
Judge Fais said he viewed the video three times prior to making his decision and played the video during the court sentencing hearing.
He will serve the remainder of his sentence for operating a vehicle while impaired at the Franklin County Correctional Center before serving his six-year sentence at Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.
Cordle pleaded guilty to both charges and faced between two and eight and a half years in prison for the charges.
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