Tom Doane
An El Granada resident whose felony vehicular manslaughter conviction was reversed in a court of appeals pleaded no contest to the charge and was sentenced to seven years time served on Monday, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
The man, Tom Doane, was convicted by jury in 2018 of both vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run for a 2016 crash that killed a man near La Honda in 2016. The appeals court affirmed the original hit-and-run conviction.
Doane pleaded no contest to the original vehicular manslaughter charge rather than retry the case, Wagstaffe said.
After a 21-day trial in November 2018, Doane was found guilty of his charges in a March 27, 2016, incident that killed Francois Jouaux, a 46-year-old man with a wife and children. He was ordered to pay $1,143,624.06 in restitution to the victim and will receive 1,366 days credit for time served, according to prosecutors.
Just before 7 p.m., Doane drove his 2001 Ford F-250 into opposing lanes of traffic on the 7400 block of La Honda Road and crashed head-on into a 1992 Honda Civic driven by Jouaux. The truck rolled over the Honda, killing Jouaux, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
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