Among the charges to which he pleaded guilty were first-degree depraved indifference assault, second-degree manslaughter, third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and driving while intoxicated. He was found to be in possession of cocaine after the accident.

Daly will not be eligible for parole, and was also sentenced to five years post-release supervision. He also waived his right to appeal.

Delligatti revoked Daly’s license, and required him to have an ignition interlock device should he ever drive again. Daly’s attorney, Bruce Barket, requested that Daly be sent to a prison where he could be properly treated for the injuries he suffered in the crash.

Barket refuted claims by prosecuting attorneys that Daly was not sorry for what had happened. “The tears you’ve seen in the courtroom today are something I’ve seen from the beginning,” Barket said. “His remorse will never make up for the loss, but it is not true that he has none. He will live with this for the rest of his life, long past his incarceration.”

Daly looked at Denise DeCrescito during much of her statement, as she talked about her husband, who was an amateur magician, enjoyed playing the piano and was devoted to his three children. She said that no matter how busy he was at work, he made it a priority to be at his children’s various activities.

“Brian Daly took Chris’s life and destroyed my life, too,” she said. “I lost my husband, my best friend. We never thought a drunk driver would destroy our family.”

The two met, she said, when Chris was 17 and she was 16. What has made a bad situation a little better, she said, was the support she and her children have had from family, friends and their church.

Daly addressed the family directly, and said he thinks about them every day. “I’m fully responsible for the death of a good man,” he said. “I know this time served will never fill the void created in your lives.”