Petition seeks top sentence for Garrison
<p align="center"><img align="center" border="0" height="309" id="615762" md5="" sourcedescription="编辑提供的本地文件" sourcename="本地文件" src="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2007-10/31/../../images/attachement/jpg/site1/20071031/000d60aa06df089236a201.jpg" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 0px solid" title="" width="207"/></p><p align="center">Lane Garrison, the 27-year-old former 'Prison Break' television series actor, arrives at the Beverly Hills, Calif., courthouse in this Aug. 2, 2007 file photo, for an expected sentencing for an alcohol-related crash that killed a teenage passenger. [Agencies]</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">Friends of a teenager killed in actor Lane Garrison's drunken driving crash hope to submit a petition to send the former "Prison Break" actor to a real lockup for nearly seven years.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">A bailiff refused>Garrison, 27, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in Superior Court in Beverly Hills in the Dec. 2 death of his passenger Vahagn Setian, 17.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">The Los Angeles County prosecutor's office had not received the petition Tuesday.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">Friends and classmates of the dead teen gathered signatures after school, at football games, in front of stores and by going door to door, Lee said.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">"Obviously, there's a sense that people want closure and they want justice and they want an appropriate punishment," Lee said. "We're talking about the loss of a life, here."</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">"You really can't allow a celebrity ... to basically walk away from killing somebody," Lee said. "You have to convince people that justice can be equal across the board."</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">Garrison's attorney said he sees the effort as an improper attempt to influence sentencing.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">"It's almost sentencing by gathering signatures" rather than by the procedures of the legal system, Harland Braun said. "They are doing it to try to influence a judge, and it's very immoral. ... The lesson that's being taught these high school kids is inappropriate."</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">"We don't sentence people by gathering signatures like some kind of political initiative at a parking lot at a Ralph's supermarket."</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">Garrison was driving a 2001 Land Rover when he lost control and rammed a tree. The crash killed Setian, a Beverly Hills High student, and injured two 15-year-old girls in the car.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">Garrison had a blood-alcohol content of 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving, and was under the influence of cocaine, according to police.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">The actor pleaded guilty in May to>Braun said he would ask that his client be sentenced to probation. The Los Angeles County prosecutor's office has asked for four years and eight months, two years less than the maximum.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">At his last court appearance Aug. 2, the actor apologized to the victim's family.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">"I have relived that night every day and I think about the bad decisions I made. I can say to you I am so sorry that you lost someone because I love people. That is my first passion," he said.</p>