Driver Who Killed Cyclist Can't Text for 2 Years

In sentencing a driver who fatally struck a bicyclist, a Michigan judge doled out some typical punishments: two years of probation, community service, 90 days in jail. But he added an unusual one, reports the Lansing State Journal: no cell phone during the probation. And that's not just while Mitzi Nelson is driving, either—it's no cell phone, period, over the two years. Nelson was texting when she hit her victim, a mother of two, reports WILX.

"I don't think she has a right to have a cell phone," said Judge Stewart McDonald. "I think it's a privilege." While McDonald admitted that his authority to impose such a rule might be vulnerable to a challenge, it seems that Nelson, 23, won't try to mount one. "Mitzi may be just fine with that," says her attorney. (More cell phones stories.)