Crime & Safety
Former Milford Police Officer Jason Anderson Sentenced: BREAKING
Anderson was fired and sentenced Wednesday for his role in the deaths of two Orange teens in 2009.

MILFORD, CT - Fired former Milford police officer Jason Anderson will serve 1 year in prison for his role in the deaths of Orange residents, Ashlie Krakowski, and David Servin, both 19, the New Haven Register reports.
Anderson received a five year sentence suspended after one year. The two teens died in the accident, which occurred in 2009.
After the sentencing, the Register's Phyllis Swebilius reports that Susan Servin, said "Not a day goes by that we don’t ache, we don’t miss our son." And Krakowski's father, Ken, questioned how Anderson received a one year sentence.
"That doesn’t sound like enough," Krakowski's father said, according to the Register.
The State Appellate Court in June 2015 granted Anderson a new trial, but last summer Anderson and his legal team said they wanted an acquittal entered into the record, the Register reports.
In 2012, a jury sentenced Anderson to five years in prison for his role in the deaths of Krakowski, and Servin. Four years later, Anderson has remained free on $50,000 bond.
The appellate court ruled in 2015 that Anderson didn’t receive a fair trial concerning instructions given to the jury by the judge at the time.
At the time of the June 13, 2009 accident, Anderson, who was not responding to an emergency call, was travelling Route 1 in Orange on his way back to Milford in excess of 90 miles per hour.
His police cruiser struck the teen’s car at 94 miles per hour.
Anderson was fired within months of the accident, and Milford’s insurance carrier paid Krakowski’s estate $3.5 million, the Servin’s paid the Krakowski’s an additional $500,000 and Servin’s family received $2.5 million from Milford.
Anderson’s attorneys argued before the State Appellate Court in 2014 that the fact Servin’s blood alcohol content was 0.14, or seven times the legal limit for someone under the age of 21, and the fact Servin didn’t stop for a blinking red lights are reasons to overturn Anderson’s conviction.
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