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Two Children Killed and 13 Other People Injured After a Drunk Driver Crashed Into a Children's Birthday Party (Michigan)
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Posted on 04/20/2024 6:07:16 PM PDT by janetjanet998

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To: Leaning Right
One thing is for sure. Courts are way, way too easy on first- and second-time DUI drivers. First offense? Maybe spend a week in jail, and your car is impounded for a month. Second offense? Spend two years in jail, and your car is seized.

In the early 1990s my auto insurance lapsed (I was broke, I missed a payment) and I got nabbed for a minor infraction on my college campus and they saw my insurance situation so I had to go to court. That's where I learned these two things:

  1. In the state of NJ at that time DUI had a minimum penalty of 6 month suspended license.
  2. Also at that time for driving while uninsured the state of NJ had a minimum penalty of 12 months suspended license.
Tells you the real priorities.
21 posted on 04/20/2024 7:20:11 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: CFW

I know. Horrible! I bet the bar is scared to death right now. They know this is going to come back on them. And that woman, 66 years old and THIS is what she’s going to be known for. I’m interested to see if she’s a repeat offender or not.


22 posted on 04/20/2024 7:31:08 PM PDT by Airforce Sister
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To: Airforce Sister

The drinking at the bar down the street is rumor. I did not hear the sheriff say that.


23 posted on 04/20/2024 7:44:00 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Responsibility2nd

So far, the drinking at the bar down the road accusation is local gossip.


24 posted on 04/20/2024 7:47:33 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Leaning Right

Back when I frequented the bars and dicos (74-78) I went to meet girls: dance and chat, maybe line up a date (I was real picky). If everybody was like me those places would have had to charge at least $10 a head to enter, because I would sometimes not buy anything to drink.

I was usually driving myself there and back, and just wasn’t interested in liquor. A beer was rarely finished, often still over half full after a couple hours there. Sometimes I simply bought an ice tea.

I have no clue what it’s like to be UTI of alcohol, and am not feeling like I’m missing out.

Nearly every adult has known (deceased), or knows (alive), a victim of drunk driving. Alcohol related deaths are so preventable. But people ignore the deadly risk.

My dad used to tell me: “You don’t have to give a habit that you don’t start”. Which was his same remark concerning smokes.


25 posted on 04/20/2024 8:06:35 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel

discos=dicos

(Maybe I should turn the autocorrect back on.)


26 posted on 04/20/2024 8:08:44 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Round Earther

You KNOW why


27 posted on 04/21/2024 5:14:23 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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“You KNOW why”

No, why would they not have released the name of the perp?


28 posted on 04/21/2024 8:56:47 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther

The Coulter Rule.


29 posted on 04/21/2024 8:58:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Round Earther

The name will be released after arraignment, although many of the locals have narrowed her down.


30 posted on 04/21/2024 11:16:33 AM PDT by madison10
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To: dfwgator

What is the “Coulter Rule?”


31 posted on 04/21/2024 11:17:17 AM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

If they don’t describe the perp, you know what race they are.


32 posted on 04/21/2024 11:18:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Round Earther

IF the person is who the locals say she is she looks like a member of a yacht club.


33 posted on 04/21/2024 11:19:25 AM PDT by madison10
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To: dfwgator

Nope. They are waiting for the arraignment. See my other comment.


34 posted on 04/21/2024 11:20:16 AM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

“IF the person is who the locals say she is she looks like a member of a yacht club.”

In prison, they won’t let her listen to Yacht Rock.


35 posted on 04/21/2024 12:17:50 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Responsibility2nd
we have no idea what else was in that woman's system...often alcohol is the obvious thing but so many also use weed and pain killers, etc.....

older people have ready made excuses for accidents....it was a "medical" issue....a guy crossed a big median and swerved and was going in the wrong direction and hit a family head on...5 kids killed...guy got off due to a "coughing fit" supposedly...

36 posted on 04/21/2024 12:27:01 PM PDT by cherry
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From the office of the Prosecuting Attorney. MONROE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
*Charged: Marshella Marie Chidester, age 66, has been charged in the death of an 8 year old Gurkha, her 4 year old brother, and the serious injuries to their mother and 11 year old brother....these charges are merely accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Chidester has been charged in the eight count complaint as follows;

COUNT 1 - homicide-murder-Second degree
COUNT 2 - homicide-murder- Second degree
COUNT 3 - Operating while intoxicated causing death
COUNT 4 - Operating while intoxicated causing death
COUNT 5-Operating while intoxicated causing serious injury
COUNT 6- Operating while intoxicated causing serious injury
COUNT 7- Operating while intoxicated causing serious injury
COUNT 8-Operating while intoxicated causing serious injury

The second degree murder charges carry a maximum of life imprisonment...

Chidester was arraigned this morning (April 23, 2024) before District Court Judge Christian Horkey. Judge Horkey set bond at $1,500,000,000 cash or surety with conditions which include GPS and alcohol tether in the event she is able to post. bond.

*There is more, but it is on FB or news sites. These are basics.


37 posted on 04/23/2024 8:50:52 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-birthday-party-crash-police-release-mugshot-suspected-drunken-driver-accused-killing-2-kids


38 posted on 04/24/2024 4:18:07 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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