“All I can really say is that I’m sorry,” Coban Porter said in a Denver courtroom Friday. “I know that I’m never going to be able to right that wrong… I never thought I’d be standing here. I though…
Coban Porter, left, appears in Denver County Court on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Porter, brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr. and a University of Denver basketball player, is charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving in a fatal crash in January. Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter was driving drunk just before 2 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2023, when he ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle at the intersection of South University and Buchtel boulevards in Denver. The other driver,Prosecutors on Friday said Porter was driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone and his blood-alcohol level was .19, more than twice the legal limit of .08. Rothman, mother to a young son, was
Many people spoke both for Rothman’s family and in support of Porter during the emotional hearing in Denver District Court on Friday. Michael Porter Jr. described how he was the first in his family to learn about the fatal crash, when a police officer called to tell him around 7 a.m. that morning. “I truly don’t think I’d be in the position I am today as a professional basketball player without a brother like Coban pushing me every day,” Michael Porter Jr. said. “He would get up earlier than me, work out harder than me. I know it’s not often that a big brother looks up to a younger brother, but that is how it was for me.”
Johnson on Friday said she wanted to see justice done, but didn’t ask for a specific sentence. She and other family members asked Porter to use his status to speak publicly about the dangers of drunk driving.
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