No.
“This guy has a disease, he is an alcoholic and this isn’t the kind of situation where he’s acting with malice to hurt people,”
Yes but you are still hurt or dead just the same.
If their s a lock guarantee that he will never be behind the wheel of a car again, then maybe let him out after 10-20 years - otherwise rot baby rot.
I’d say it is. The judge exceeded the sentencing guidelines. You can’t punish a third degree felony with a first degree felony sentence. It is what it is, no matter how malicious.
It’s Texas..he’s lucky he didn’t get the death penalty..
If there is no other 100% way to keep him off the road, then no. This guy will eventually kill a bunch of innocents if he’s not locked up.
The POS may still get wasted on pruno, but the he WON’T be driving! Good for the judge,
You had eight opportunities, moron. Have fun...
Why not? One way or the other, he’s bound to spend his life behind bars.
How about giving drunk drivers a year without parole for the first offense, and life for the second.
I don’t think this is too harsh. I think it was too lenient to give him 8 “second chances”.
If he had only been an illegal living in Los Angeles............
“the court should have considered his struggle with alcoholism.”
You gotta be kidding me. Seems like the court DID consider his struggle with alcoholism. The guy who said that ought to consider his own inability to deal with reality.
Perhaps surgically making him incapable of driving, and let him out.
The real question here is, why are we even asking that question.
If he had been arrested 9 times for walking around with a gun, randomly shooting it off in all directions, would we be asking if his sentence was too severe?
At .032 this guy should have been under the table. It is very telling he was even awake.
Priority #1 is stopping him from maiming and killing people. Obviously the only way to do that is incarcerate him. Only then should dealing with his “disease” be undertaken.
I think Lawrence Taylor might take a different view of this if the guy hit one of Lawrence’s children while he was driving around drunk. Another lawyer who reinforces the stereotype.
It might be a good idea to go back to colonial days in America.
One year in Jail was cosidered enough ... Anything more was considered cruel and ununual punishment ... so those people were publicly hanged ... right away.
So the guy's basically a POS that wreaks mayhem throughout the state. He hasn't killed anyone yet, but it's not because he gives a isht about anyone else.
For the last 30 years I've gone through life with a limp, one leg 2" shorter than the other, a tight ankle and back pain because some selfish SOB got stinking drunk and ran me down. I don't know what the answer is, and life is a long time, but a person who changes other innocent peoples' lives through their own selfishness needs to have the message delivered by somebody other than a "Gee he has issues" judge.
NO! Should we wait until he kills someone? he’s shown that he’s a danger to society and must be removed from that society.
My oldest had more DUI/DWI in his early teens. But he later mellowed out and has become a productive member of society. Not every person is alike.
Is this life with the possibility of parole?