MARION COUNTY — A 23-year-old Brownstown man was sentenced Thursday in Marion County court to three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after he previously pleaded guilty to one of three charges against him stemming from a crash on U.S. 51 that claimed the life of an Odin man.

Ryan Feezel pleaded guilty in May to Class 3 felony reckless homicide in connection with a July 2016 traffic crash on U.S. 51 north of Patoka that claimed the life of Kevin Koenegstein.

Feezel’s guilty plea was in exchange for charges of Class 2 felony aggravated DUI resulting in a crash involving a death and Class 4 felony aggravated DUI resulting in a crash involving bodily harm being dismissed.

Feezel was initially charged in July 2016 with improper lane usage following the crash U.S. 51 just north of Patoka.

He later filed an appeal in Marion County Court after an oversight enabled him to plead guilty over the counter to the traffic charge before criminal charges had been filed.

The Appellate Court rejected his appeal and remanded the case back to Marion County for prosecution.