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Paul Rood (MUGSHOT: Courtesy Bergen prosecutor)
Superior Court Judge Edward Jerejian sentenced Paul Robert Rood to three years behind bars, 85% of which must be served under New Jersey’s No Early Release Act, which applies to vehicular homicides, among other crimes.
Paul Meehan II, a 32-year-old compliance manager with E-Trade, was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic and pronounced dead less than an hour after the March 1, 2011 crash, in which Rood lost control of his SUV on Jackson Avenue.
A front passenger, 29-year-old Brian Russell was taken to Hackensack University Hospital and later released.
Rood, a maintenance director at Assumption Church in Wood-Ridge. He was charged with death by auto, driving under the influence, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and failure to wear a seat belt.
He pleaded guilty on Jan. 25 rather than go to trial.
Meehan, who was graduated from Sparta High School in 1997, is survived by wife, Dawn, his parents Paul and Patricia, brothers James and Richard Meehan and others.
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