Posted on 12/02/2016 7:48:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 25-year-old FIU graduate, who pled guilty in a deadly DUI crash, begged for forgiveness from her victims’ families before accepting her 5-year prison term.
Video at site.
5 to 10 sounds about right to me. Actually time locked down. I know it isn’t popular, but it’s not the same as someone who murders someone on purpose and shouldn’t be the same penalty.
Her age is a factor too I believe.
You are assuming people don’t murder people with cars.
And I doubt it matters how a person is unjustly killed to the person who’s dead, negligence or deliberate intent.
In my youth this could have been I. I was lucky and never did harm. If I had of done harm it would have only been right I faced the full extent of they law.
The only thing in question is how long the jail sentence. Jail should be both punishment and rehabilitation if the ideal.
I myself prefer the concept of short jail sentences that are the hell on earth that might rehabilitate the person of wrong doing. Perhaps they can then be a member of a society. Release them and if they fail a second time, put them in jail forever or execute them.
I am not a criminal and these harsh laws are of no danger to me. Do not ever touch my granddaughter in an vile act. I will kill you if my state does not. I am old and it is well worth the sacrifice but here in Texas I would probably walk free.
Beware old men that love their children and grandchildren. We are very nice people but deadly in the extreme.
A drunk broad ran down two of my biker friends because she didn’t want to slam on the brakes and risk harming her little dog, who was under her feet.
She didn’t even get a drunk test at the scene.
Bitch then sued their survivors for “emotional damages” and won.
I got 19 years of PTSD from watching it happen and she got rich.
I forgot to add that I know very bad people that have become good members of society. They paid one hell of a price in jail. Jail did not save them but turned them to Christ that did save them. Jail is hard but salvation is easy if one only opens his heart to salvation and god.
Well said and very true!
Opening my heart to Jesus Christ and accepting Him as my Lord and Savior really helped me out tremendously. Did it in 2009 in the middle of the night, with no one around, and crying out to God.
All I can say for people who have not done this it will change your life certainly for the better.
One last point . Just saying it is one thing.... Although you have to really mean it in your heart not just say it. Love Him in your heart and know it. It’s sort of like someone you have loved in life (not physical love) no matter what (a sister, a brother, mom, dad, a pet, etc...) or been loved from someone like a parent, etc... that you know always loved you and always been there for you no matter what. That’s the type of love I’m talking about.
Sorry to ramble, but some people say they believe but nothing really changes. It makes me think they are saying it, but not really believing in their heart. I know this because that’s what happened to me a long time ago. Dramatic changes happen when you do it from your heart.
Five years for killing someone’s loved one? A 25 year minimum sentence should be the national standard. Every child over six in America knows it is against the law to drive drunk, so ignorance is no excuse.
What happened to her the third time? When she almost killed four young men? Another slap on the wrist. Same as the others. These days they take this stuff a bit more seriously.
So true.
Thank you!
That case is truly horrible.
For an accident, albeit one involving negligence?
Insane...
Thank you! Yes, I'm so proud of him. But really, all the glory goes to God. That's what he says.
That is the most insane & awful story ever. Did your friends die? I am so sorry. I just......how is that story even possible????
Yes, they died.
She ran over one and snapped his neck.
The woman slammed into the side of her van and spouted blood from her ruptured lungs, until she died.
The woman had started to wobble on her new Sportster and the man, ever the gallant knight, tried to ride alongside her and stabilize her.
They went slightly over the line in a curve.
I was in my Scirocco, riding drag for the group and watched it all.
*If* she had not been snockered and her dog had not been laying under her brake pedal, she could have slowed down in plenty of time to avoid them both.
But she was blitzed and the dog was under her feet so they being barely a foot over the line cost them their lives and got her off the legal hook.
All of us we were so shell-shocked, we were pretty much useless for giving on-scene witness testimonies but she did *great* and the cops believed her.
How she lives with herself is beyond me.
To this day, even though I watched it all happen close up and in horrible technicolor, I cannot remember it...until I sleep.
:(
The first state trooper on the scene asked me where I was, and I said “right behind them” and then he asked me what I saw and I said “Nothing”.
He shook his head and looked at me with such pity.
He knew my brains were scrambled from what I’d seen.
I could not even get out of my car.
I was in such a state of shock, I mistook my window crank for my door handle and just ripped it off.
Then I sat in my car, screaming and beating on the window, because I “couldn’t get out”, until a friend opened the door from the outside.
More horrible than I could ever fully express.
So much blood.
I am so sorry, there are no words that can help what they and you went though....
You are in my prayers....
MOgirl
Thank you for that.
I could *really* use the prayers.
19 years have not really dulled it that much.
You have them....
MOgirl
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