So this MD showed immediate remorse and did not come of up with a plausible defense like a cute little kitty ran in front of me and I had to stop suddenly? For this show of honesty and remorse he gets five years in the slammer?
I don't think he showed remorse immediately. His first comment to the cops was that his did it to teach them a lesson. When he called 911, the driver, an emergency room doctor, told the dispatcher that the cyclist's injuries weren't serious, even though the man's nose was nearly sliced off and the trunk of the doctor's car was covered in blood. It was probably when they were picking the cyclists teeth out of his backseat and he realized that he was in serious trouble that he began his show of remorse.
For this show of honesty and remorse he gets five years in the slammer?>
No, he's getting five years in the slammer for being convicted of six felony counts including assault with a deadly weapon, battery with serious bodily injury, reckless driving causing specified bodily injury, and mayhem.
He'd also had two earlier incidents, with less drastic consequences, but the DA's office had declined to press charges those times.