KC man gets 6 months in death linked to LSD

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man is handed a six-month federal prison term for providing LSD that prosecutors linked to the death of an 18-year-old woman.

Christian Hunt pleaded guilty in November to selling the hallucinogenic drug that was taken by Clarissa Bergman of Shawnee, Kan. Her body was found at the bottom of a Missouri swimming pool in December 2005. The pool was covered with a layer of ice and a tarp.

Tests showed that Bergman had LSD in her system when her car crashed into a Lake Lotawana pool after she and a friend became disoriented. Her death was ruled accidental due to drowning and exposure to cold.

Bergman's mother, Irene Findlay, urged U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple to support the prosecution request for a three-year term. But the judge found that the law did not support the longer sentence.

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