Posted on 12/18/2009 11:24:35 AM PST by pissant
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - An illegal immigrant who drove away after hitting a toddler in a Salem parking lot has been sentenced to one year and five months in prison.
Juan Lopez-Perez pleaded guilty Thursday morning to failing to perform the duties of a driver in a crash.
Defense attorney Steven Walls said his client left the scene Nov. 24 because a crowd was gathering, he feared for his safety and he was in the country illegally.
Before his conviction, the district attorney’s office said Lopez-Perez told witnesses he knew he’d struck and killed a child and that he tried to hide his truck and attempted to leave when police found him on Maple Avenue in Salem.
Neither drugs nor alcohol contributed to the collision that killed his neighbor - 2-year-old Erika Rubi Meza.
(Excerpt) Read more at katu.com ...
17 months. BFD
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Leaving the scene. Hiding the vehicle, then resisting arrest. That alone should give this POS a year.
I was reading up on this one. Something similar happened in Tulsa, recently (illegal alien, fleeing accident scene of someone killed).
The accident happened November 24, 2008. The guy is married, has three kids; he’s 31 and he’s been married for 16 years. The kid he ran over was a neighbor’s kid - 2-year-old Erika Rubi Meza.
I don’t know all the details, but it seems odd that it’s his neighbor’s kid, so I’m wondering if he was driving his neighbor (and the kid) along to go somewhere (don’t know...).
The article says he doesn’t have a criminal record, but I don’t know how long he’s been in this country, as it doesn’t say.
It sounds like the “big conviction” here is because of fleeing the accident scene. It doesn’t sound like they are blaming him for the killing of the kid — not sure of the details here, but if that’s the case, then the authorities probably classify it as an “accident”, that is, something that he didn’t do out of negligence. But, that’s just a guess on my part. I don’t find too much in the way of details here...
In Tulsa, recently, there was an illegal alien that ran over a well-known older lady who always rode her bicycle. He just went on to work over at the refinery here in Tulsa and parked his truck in the lot and started work. Apparently he didn’t have a license to drive or auto insurance. He was driving a newer truck (or maybe it was an SUV, can’t remember well now...).
Leaving the scene. Hiding the vehicle, then resisting arrest. That alone should give this POS a year.
Well, they gave him longer than 12 months; they gave him 17 months... :-)
But, as far as the resisting arrest part, I didn't see that. Do you have another article with that in it?
Thanks...
This is disgusting.....this Illegal Alien (not an immigrant) breaks the law to enter the US....then kills a child.....gets a slap on the wrist....
And then we will have America-haters want to give this illegal alien amnesty
17 months. BFD
I don't think the sentence was for the killing of the kid. I think it was for fleeing the scene of the accident and hiding out.
The article is skimpy on details, but with me reading "in between the lines" -- it appears to me that the kid being killed was probably considered an accident and not something negligent. I would say that his sentence is related to not remaining on the scene.
Illegals kill more US citizens than Al Qeda and the Taliban .
Round em up and ship them back.
This is disgusting.....this Illegal Alien (not an immigrant) breaks the law to enter the US....then kills a child.....gets a slap on the wrist....
I'm still looking for more details on that, but just from the information that I can see and read, thus far, it appears to me that the sentence was for leaving the scene and not for the killing of the kid.
Now, while he may end up being responsible, in that a monetary judgment might be entered against him (I'm figuring that a claim probably has been or will be made), it doesn't appear that the kid being killed is a criminal matter, which is why you see the sentence of 17 months. That appears, to me, to be for leaving the scene of the accident.
But, if anyone has any more details on the accident and/or the court proceedings, that would be nice to see.
From the posted excerpt ;-)
Illegals kill more US citizens than Al Qeda and the Taliban .
I think the illegals should go, certainly (and I think they ought to shut up that border real tight) -- but I will say something about what you just said... :-)
I think you'll find that far more "Americans" (who are not foreign or illegal) kill other Americans in car accidents than illegals do...
Americans killing other Americans by auto accidents is a big number here in this country -- and that is far, far beyond the number killed on 9/11 by terrorists...
That doesn't make 9/11 any better or terrorist a minor threat, but it does put the "numbers of killed people" in better perspective, as to how many are dying around here and for what cause.
I’m sure you get my point. The whole Illegal Alien deal, not to mention vehicular manslaughter or whatever they charged him with, plus not too much of a reach to assume there might be some forged or stolen ID back at the shack.
I guess no matter how you slice it, it’s a ‘who’s the REAL victim’ type deal. We’re used to seeing in Oregon.
I read that, but I didn’t read it to mean resisting arrest...
I mean, a person can see the police and he can start to flee, but the police order him to halt and he does... and then it’s not resisting arrest...
That’s sort of what I envisioned.
They would make a bigger deal out of it and they would actually say “resisting arrest” if that were the case. But, then again, there may be another article that says that — but I haven’t seen it.
Also note: more American die from smoking.
I’m sure you get my point.
I think I may get your point, but I'm not absolutely sure. I mean, you could mean that you consider the death of the kid to be something that should require a lot longer sentence. But, that's why I said that it appears to be what the authorities consider an "accident" -- and then it wouldn't be "criminal".
And then, you might mean that since he's an illegal alien that he should get a longer sentence. I don't agree with that, but that only a person should get a sentence commensurate for the crime that they've been convicted of. That part is legitimate.
If he's an illegal, then, very simply -- he should be shipped out of the country. I don't think the "sentence" in a court of law should be (for example) -- let's say 24 months for a citizen, but if you're an illegal alien, that same sentence should be 60 months... LOL...
You have to remember, the authorities and the justice system is going to keep everything in its "own category"...
That means, if there's a crime committed, they're going to deal with that crime, and then if he's an illegal alien (which he apparently is), then they are going to deal with that when his sentence is through (or sometimes even before it's through).
Anyway, I'm not totally sure what you're meaning...
Very true... I hadn’t thought of that one... (my mind was on car accidents...)...
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