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The appeals court made the right decision.
Understandable view.
I had much more tolerance for DUI until about 10 years ago a drunk in a "dually" Chevrolet hit my parents head on at about 90 mph. He skidded 170 yards down the ditch without the rear axle under his truck before he stopped. He was unhurt - neither was his 6 year old granddaughter (by Gods mercy). My parents on the other hand had to be cut out of the mass that was once their car. The lived (again by Gods grace) but my mother still lives in daily pain.

No sir, if you are going to deliberately incapacitate yourself without making contingency plans, the consequences of your behavior are your problem. It's a shame that he would be that stupid, but his stupidity does not give him any right to endanger my family (or yours) on the road.

When it is someone else's loved ones it is a bit easier to be lenient. When it is your loved ones, it becomes personel.

My opinion: 1st offence $10,000 dollar fine & 6 months in jail. Second: Permanately revoke drivers licence. Third:Jail 10-20 years for attempted murder. It's no different than me going outside and just shooting off 100 or so rounds from my weapon. I'm not aiming at anyone in particular, but it is seriously reasonable to assume that I am deliberately putting all of those around me in danger of loosing their life.

Your opinion about DUI is understandable considering your personal experience. But, unfortunately, the DUI laws are increasingly become a way for the state to extract revenue and impose its power over the citizenry. Studies have shown that the 0.08 BAC laws have a negligible effect on decreasing drunk-driving-related deaths, but a significant effect on increasing the number of citizens arrested for DUI - there were approximately 1.6 million DUI arrests last year.

No sir, if you are going to deliberately incapacitate yourself without making contingency plans, the consequences of your behavior are your problem.

In many cases, people are making such contingency plans, but they're getting arrested anyway. And MADD has a lot to do with these abuses of government power. Click here, here , and here to see how this once-noble organization has changed from having the admirable mission of getting drunks off the road and raising awareness about drunk driving, to a bunch of modern-day Carrie Nations that are hell-bent on re-imposing Prohibition, not all at once, but "drip by drip".