When William Sweet’s public defender met him days after he’d been arrested, she didn’t know much about the case yet, other than that somebody was dead, she recounted during her client’s sentencing Tuesday.
Sweet, a Caldwell resident, corrected her, she said. The man wasn’t a “decedent,” his name was Donald Priddy — and Sweet was always going to remember that.
Priddy, 66, of Boise, was walking on the sidewalk along State Street near 23rd Street when Sweet drove off the road and hit him. Priddy died at the scene from “traumatic blunt force injuries,” according to the Ada County Coroner’s Office…