After pleading guilty to a life-altering crash, Samuel Mark Phillips “left the room with the forgiveness” of Cory Buckley’s family and a 7-year prison sentence, his attorney Arturo Corso said. Phillips, 33, of Flowery Branch, pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree vehicular homicide and other charges in a May 24, 2015, collision killing Buckley, a CASA supervisor. “There was a lot of energy in the room, a lot of sadness in the room and somehow there was also a lot of forgiveness in the room,” Corso said.