No Jail Time For Hobart Player's Death

The teammates who supplied alcohol to an underage Hobart lacrosse player will not face jail time in connection with his death:

Facing up to a year in prison, two former students at a college in upstate New York were instead sentenced to community service yesterday for providing alcohol at an off-campus party where a classmate from New Jersey died.

Summit resident Warren Kimber IV, 20, who had been a sophomore at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the Finger Lakes region, drank a staggering amount of alcohol in the hours before his death on Jan. 31, an autopsy found.

Kimber's blood alcohol level was .29 percent, more than 31/2 times the legal limit to drive. He also had the painkiller oxycodone in his system. It was the combination of drugs and alcohol that killed him, a medical examiner ruled.

Bradley Hester, 22, of Cumberland, R.I., and Matthew Smalley, 23, of Woodbridge, Va., pleaded guilty in May to a misdemeanor charge of providing alcohol to a person under 21. All three students were members of the varsity lacrosse team.

Yesterday, a judge in Geneva City, N.Y., ordered Hester and Smalley to spend 50 hours educating children about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. They also must undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and follow any recommendations issued after the assessment.

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