Wallace gets 30 years for DUI manslaughter

Wanda Spearman Wallace, of Gulf Breeze, was sentenced by Judge David Rimmer to the maximum of 30 years in state prison on the charge of DUI manslaughter - failure to give information / render aid July 26.

She was also sentenced for driving with a suspended license and violating restricted driver’s license.

On Oct. 25 last year, Wallace was driving her car on U.S. Highway 98 in Santa Rosa County when she struck and killed Darrell Dwayne Perkins. Perkins was working in a designated con

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