Teen Back in Court on DUI Charges

Dwayne beach was just a teenager when he died in a car crash on a Stafford County road. His family's grief will not go away.

And so far, neither have the legal troubles of the young man who was behind the wheel that night. The driver-- then 17-year-old Arkee Hall was found guilty of improper driving in juvenile court.

Dwayne's mom's grief was still fresh when 15 months after her son died, Hall was behind the wheel for a second fatal accident. This time another passenger-- Jeremiah Poyck-- died.

In that case, Hall was found guilty of manslaughter and DUI. The judge ordered him not to drive for 20 years. He served his jail time, but just three weeks after his probation ended, he was arrested for DUI in Spotsylvania County. He pled guilty to that, and very early on New Year's Day of this year, Hall was pulled over again-- this time a DUI charge in Florida.

In court on Friday, Commonwealth's attorney Dan Chichester told the judge:

"There comes a time with some people when the court has done all it can do and I would suggest we have reached that time with Arkee Hall."

Hall's mother had nothing to say leaving court on Friday, but Dwayne Beach's family had a lot to say about the fact that Judge John Alderman is requiring Hall to serve only four years of the eight he could have served for violating his probation.

"I don't understand the system, and I don't understand judges that can't take a look at the record and say, 'Young man, you've got a problem. You've got to straighten your life up,'" said Mary Garnder. "I am very disappointed."

Marcel Jones is Arkee Hall's lawyer.

"Does he carry this around? Is it a burden to him that he was behind the wheel in two deadly accidents? Like you said, regardless of the legal aspect, he does feel some sort of pressure to a certain extent that two individuals died where he was present," said Jones.

Arkee Hall will spend at least four more years in jail. When he's released, he'll be about 28 years old.

Hall still has one case that hasn't made it all the way through the court system. That's the DUI in Florida, and there's no outcome yet for that case.