this is one area of law many european countries are far better than us in dealing with harsh sentences. i’m the last guy to tout europe but many of them have far better laws for drunk driving.
The law is an ass.
Wait, who went through the red light? The drunk guy or the motorcyclist?
If the drunk guy went through this sentence is truly and outrage but it seemed like maybe it was the other guy who ran the light and the drunk guy just failed to stop in time.
Too creepy having 2 separate fatal drunk driving accidents in your family. Time to move to Utah.
Be glad it wasn’t a rich kid getting off for “affluenza” and then getting “counseling” that robs the taxpayers by $30,000 a month.
If the courts do not dispense fair justice, they abrogate their very purpose, which is to prevent blood feuds and revenge killings.
In many times in the US, such legal failure could have resulted in homicide, which failed only because the aggrieved party tried to subcontract their revenge.
Were they instead, to just bide their time, and carry out their revenge personally, it is likely it could have succeeded. Yet such stories seldom make the news, for the obvious reason that they were successful.
We have the best legal system that money can buy.
a tragedy.... for all of those who drink and drive DON”T
Wasn’t some kid let off in TX after he killed four people while drunk driving or something? Said he was too rich to jail?
Other news articles report that the perp, who was driving a pickup truck, ran the red light—not the motorcyclist, who was totally innocent.
The other day a friend and I were discussing what he would do if anyone killed one of his loved ones through reckless conduct, such as drunk driving. His solution was simple: He doesn’t have faith in the criminal justice system to punish criminals. So he would carefully plan and carry out the execution of the perp, through whatever means would maximize the chances that he would not be prosecuted. His opinion was that with careful planning he would likely be able to carry out such a plan. Apparently he has promised his loved ones that he would take such steps, which has brought comfort to the family in a dangerous world.