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Posted on 10/01/2004 4:48:37 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Driver gets maximum penalty
Woman who killed couple gets 20 years
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
James F. McCarty, Plain Dealer Reporter
Defiant until the end, Robbie Moore was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for getting drunk, driving the wrong way, and killing a newlywed couple on a motorcycle in May.
Moore, 29, of Warrensville Heights, pleaded guilty last month to aggravated vehicular homicide in the deaths of Jeffrey Bliss, 25, and his wife, Ann Marie, 20, of Parma, on Cleveland's Inner Belt May 20.
The couple had been married nine days.
Moore maintained the deaths were an accident. She insisted she had downed only 2½ alcoholic drinks at a bowling alley that night, and that causing harm to an other person is against her nature.
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She had a blood-alcohol level of 0.2 percent, about twice the legal limit in Ohio.
Sutula didn't believe Moore's story and gave her the maximum punishment that state guidelines allow.
The judge chastised the defendant for a lack of remorse and for living so recklessly with a checkered driving record although Moore had no prior felony convictions.
Sutula defied the 5-foot, 285-pound woman to explain how she became so intoxicated on fewer than three drinks, or why she drove the wrong way for nearly 10 miles on interstates 71 and 90.
"Let no one walk out of here believing this was an accident," Sutula said. "This is the worst form of drunk-driving and vehicular homicide."
The judge said Moore required the maximum sentence "to protect the public."
Moore's attorney, James Hardiman, protested the judge's severity, citing similar cases of aggravated vehicular homicide where the sentences were a fraction of that imposed by Sutula.
"You may take that up on appeal," the judge responded.
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(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
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Well, I ain't no expert, but I know that it takes a lot more than three drinks to pickle a hog of that size.
Guess she just lost count.
Cleveland ping. Thanks for posting this. Since I pay no attention at all to the local news stations, I usually know more about what's going on on the other side of the world than in my own back yard.
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Please, no pictures.
Woulda taken a keg to get her drunk.
Or Kennedy.
One of the local AM talk radio personalities is calling this decision blatent racism. A white male was sentenced for 6 years for a similar crime at the same time.
I can't speak to the different sentences, only the judges would have that information. What is upsetting is someone on the radio spouting such garbage without regards to the effects such statements would have.
I'll look for a link for the other sentencing.
As a nation, we have come a long way in terms of looking at drunk drivers in a more realistic light.
When my brother was hit by a drunk driver (severing his leg) back in 1970, crashes involving drunk drivers were often seen as unfortunate "accidents".
I am heartened when I see harsh sentences for these crimes.
LOL and thanks. . .
I'm therefore guessing the drunk woman was black
OK, I laughed.
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Pretty good deal for her, if you ask me.
If it's the situation from the link in post #15, the 6-year sentence was added onto a life sentence.
That's more like it, if you ask me.
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