Pa. man sentenced 8 years later for DUI

Yahoo via AP ^ | Fri. Oct 12th | n/a

[DemforBush]

CARLISLE, Pa. - A man was sentenced to house arrest for drunken driving and drug charges eight years after his paperwork somehow got lost in a bureaucratic shuffle, authorities said...

[DemforBush]

(Didn't see this in search, apologies if it was posted elsewhere.)

I certainly don't condone drinking and driving, but my goodness, what a bureaucratic foul-up!

[Harris]

Not to mention his lawyer’s foul up if the lawyer didn’t raise speedy trial at sentencing.

[Popman]

This country is developed a serious judicial problem in the last 20 years.

Over zealous prosecutors spent way too much time watching Law & Order or viewing their jobs as political stepping stones making it politically expedient to walk over the citizens up the political ladder to higher office.

The flip side of over zealous prosecutors are the uber liberal judges that can't seem to put away hardened criminals in lieu of the slim hope of being reformed into productive citizens by a incapable prison system

This guy should have been made to do some type of community service at best

[jdm]

Eight years ago it was 1999. They didn’t have this on a hard drive somewhere? Or states didn’t have computers way back in 1999?

[highpockets]

Advances in technology have made it easier for authorities to track cases more closely, he said.

Apparently this DA office was unaware that alphabetical, numerical or even date indexing existed prior to computers!

preivate praxtice. knot goodd stay govrmant

[Crim]

Must have been the massive Y2K outages that occured...

*rolleyes*

[jdm]

LOL!