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During the hearing on Thursday, two prosecutors stood solemnly at the front of the courtroom, one holding a photograph of Hackney while the other read\u00a0victim impact statements provided by Hackney\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
The family did not attend the hearing and instead asked prosecutors to read their impact statements to Petty and the court, Assistant District Attorney Priscilla\u00a0Pelli told the judge. The statements were written by Hackney’s mother, Dr. Gail Hackney, her sister Maggie Pinholster, brother-in-law Ian Pinholster and Fotopoulos.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer death is constantly on my mind,” Hackney’s sister wrote. \u201cThe pain literally never goes away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gail Hackney wrote that she\u2019s unable to sleep and cries multiple times a day. She plans to sell her Preston Hollow home because it\u2019s become too painful to remain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Petty sat at the defense table in a tan jail uniform and handcuffs as Assistant District Attorney Kristin\u00a0Treager stood in front of him, holding a photo of a smiling Hackney at her law office. He didn\u2019t speak during the hearing, other than to answer the judge\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n
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Petty initially planned to apologize in court, his attorney Peter Barrett said. But after hearing the impact statements, he decided he would instead write a letter, the attorney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe certainly lives with the guilt of what he did every day,\u201d\u00a0Barrett said after the hearing. \u201cHe felt that any brief words today would be insufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Petty has remained jailed since his arrest. He was given credit for time served and will become eligible for parole after serving five years, according to Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Andrew James, chief of the office\u2019s vehicular crimes unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cars drive through the intersection of Turtle Creek Boulevard and Gilespie Street where Emma Hackney, 29, was killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,92331,87998,88940,88938,89305,140467],"class_list":["post-400229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-courts","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-highland-park","tag-tp-oak-lawn","tag-tp-preston-hollow","tag-tp-turtle-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}