What Is the Sentence for Intoxication Manslaughter in Fort Worth?
The selected news reports describe different forms of punishment: Alexander See received 120 days in jail followed by ten years of probation; DeAujalae Evans received life after a guilty plea and a jury punishment trial involving a peace officer’s death. Probation is not a ten-year prison term, and categorical life is not a numerical upper endpoint. These are separately scoped reports, not a citywide numerical range or proof of time actually served.
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What Intoxication Manslaughter Means
Texas Penal Code section 49.08 applies when intoxication during the operation of a motor vehicle in a public place causes another person’s death by accident or mistake.
Statutory Framework and Historical Limits
The official Texas sections 49.08/49.09 and general felony provisions read September 28, 2026 distinguish ordinary second-degree intoxication manslaughter from specified enhanced first-degree circumstances. The ordinary second-degree imprisonment framework is two to 20 years; first-degree imprisonment is five to 99 years or life. Applicability depends on conduct-date law and findings. Later amendments are not retroactively assigned to these 2018 and 2024 events, and the sample is not a statutory range.
Observed Fort Worth Outcomes
| Reported prosecution or historical context | Source-reported location, disposition and sentence scope |
|---|---|
| Cluster 1 | Alexander See: FOX 4’s February 13, 2020 report describes a 2018 I-30 crash in Fort Worth and a sentence for intoxication manslaughter of 120 days in jail followed by ten years of probation. The brief report does not state a separately suspended prison term; none is inferred. |
| Cluster 2 | DeAujalae Evans: NBC 5’s March 30, 2026 report describes life imposed by a punishment jury after a plea to intoxication manslaughter leading to a peace officer’s death. The August 2024 I-35W incident killed Sgt. Billy Randolph. The report also mentions an aggravated-assault plea and earlier probation for a separate shooting, but does not supply an independently checked count allocation; no additional 20-year sentence or extra manslaughter cluster is inferred. |
Case Sources
Cluster 1 source supports the described record and limitations, not a completed independent municipal/later-docket audit. Cluster 2 source supports the other described record; imposed or affirmed is not the same as exhausted later review.
Methodology and Limits
The two reported crash episodes are separate, but road/regional descriptions and a police agency’s identity are not independent incorporated-city boundary verification. These are actual news passages, not both original court judgments. Evans’s prior probation case is separate context; no hypothetical revocation term is added to her announced life sentence. Relevant available passages were actually read September 28, 2026. Imposed, probation, suspended, enhanced, consecutive and multi-count terms retain their stated scope. No common numerical range is forced.
Official Law
Limit: Two selected public-reporting clusters cannot establish a typical result. This page provides general information, not legal advice.