Inset: Chad Martin (Kalamazoo County Jail). Background: The grocery store where Martin found his son deceased in the backseat of the car (Google Maps).
A Michigan man who accidentally left his 3-year-old son to die inside of a hot car for several hours last summer may, in the end, avoid significant jail time altogether, a judge ruled this week.
In January, Chad Martin, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of leaving a child in a vehicle causing death…