Posted on 02/02/2011 9:45:12 PM PST by TruthHound
LONG BEACH -- After two days of deliberations, a jury found a Long Beach man guilty of second degree murder and four other charges in the vehicular dragging death of a 13-month-old Long Beach girl, and severely injuring her 2-year-old brother.
Neely Lejon Dinkins, dropped his head Wednesday afternoon in Long Beach Superior Court, and his family members wept as the verdicts were read. Dinkins was found guilty of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the death of 13-month-old Kaylee Alvarez and of several counts of causing gross bodily injury to Oscar Alvarez while driving drunk, and of leaving the scene of the accident.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 8.
Two special allegations of causing gross bodily injury to both Oscar and Kaylee also apply to the charges.
Jennifer Cops, the prosecuting attorney, said she hadn't added up the jail time Dinkins could face but it is substantial. She said the murder charge alone calls for a term of 15 years to life without other considerations.
The defense had argued Dinkins, who had a .20 blood alcohol content at the time of the accident, couldn't be guilty of murder because he was too drunk to know what he was doing. The legal blood alcohol limit is .08.
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Oh I’m in complete agreement there.
Why do you say “with malice aforethought”?
Your response of ‘hug your children’ is very positive after what you went thru sitting on that jury. Most people don’t realize how traumatic sitting on a jury can be. You may need to ‘talk it out,’ with a clergyman or someone else who can help you deal with the emotional aftermath.
Having personally suffered (along with my wife and 3 kids) from a head-on collision with a DUI and living with the consequences for the rest of my life, the only justice for a DUI offender is to have the same damage done to them as what they caused upon the innocent parties they inflicted pain upon. In my case, the DUI should have had four ribs broken, his faced scarred, his right kneecap shattered. and his right femur shoved through the pelvis shattering it into pieces. and if the DUI kills someone, then they should forfeit their life likewise. No mercy.
in 1998 he was convicted of a drug charge and given three years probation. Probation didn’t go very well, and soon he was serving five years in state prison for two separate violations.
In 2000, Neely Dinkins was arrested again, this time for burglary, but that charge ended up getting dropped because there wasn’t enough evidence to pin it on him
There ya go. How’s that for our legal system?
Maybe his attorney wanted him to be convicted.
Haha. You’re asking way too much, even of freepers...as this thread will almost certainly prove. Sadly, people sentence others to their doom based on emotion and nothing else. Whether or not the judge/prosecution/cops did a good job is not relevant. What is relevant, unfortunately, is that the correct emotion is generated in the 12 sheep observing the courtroom performances.
They ought to slam the defense attorney into the same cell with this creep for making such an argument.
I'd be interested to see a link to just one post here where a Freeper condones drunk driving. maybe I frequent different threads from you, but I haven't seen any.
Eye for an eye.
Why is this pos still breathing?
Then I guess we should let them drive drunk as much as they want.
The g*d d*mn Germans got nothin to do with it!
Your kidding...right?
In Norway what do they do to a drunk driver who has no income or any wealth?
Dunno if there should be a penalty for drunk driving as such, but maybe it should be an aggravating circumstance in any traffic violation or crime. Sort of like using a gun in a crime is aggravating circumstance (i.e. additional 3 years for having a gun during commission, 5 years for threatening, 10 years for discharging, etc.). Cops have all sorts of leeway in determining if someone needs stopping...
For example having an accident while drunk would take the incident from a traffic citation to a misdemeanor or felony. If someone gets killed, it goes from manslaughter to murder.
When some 'no body' said he felt there was a war against cops going on (after the Tucson shooting) almost EVERY newspaper and MSM outlet picked it up. Those groups carry water for liberals - not us... It was telling. The implication was conservatives were the killers... Krugman jumps to that at every chance. So do the rest of them... and it becomes a non-news story when it turns out the person is anything but conservative...
I don't know why liberals are trying to set the criminal justice system against us - but it's what they're up to.
They're pushing a lie. Look at Bill Ayers - a man who dedicated a book to all cop killers - check out the prisons - probably 97% democrats. They've got Timothy McVeigh - and that's about it.... I'll give you a link you might enjoy... soon.
Hey thanks. I appreciate the time you put in the response. It was interesting to see a first hand account.
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name! ;-)
That said you will get no serious grief from me. Everyone is entitled to a defense by a competent attorney.
Link at bottom:
When 13 US soldiers at Ft. Hood, including a pregnant woman, were mowed down in cold blood (and 30 more wounded), President Obama didn’t interrupt a Native American shout-out to renounce the horror. When Obama finally did speak, he urged us not to jump to conclusions. Since then, next to nothing has been said about the slaughter. The fact that the murderer was a Muslim automatically disqualifies the soldiers from being “good victims.”
In contrast, during the recent, also horrific Tucson massacre, 20 people were injured and 6 killed by an apparently psychotic 22 year old. Given that the Ft. Hood murders involved an internal Jihad, doesn’t this genocide pose a greater safety risk to this country than a lunatic in Tucson? Consequently, shouldn’t Ft. Hood have been dissected and analyzed for months on end?
However, since the politicos found a way to blame Tucson on conservatives, this latter atrocity has garnered much more publicity. In fact, Obama presided over a huge Memorial Service for the families and survivors of Tucson. No comparable event was held for the loved ones of Ft. Hood.
The Left divides the world into good and bad victims. People who are viewed as part of an aggrieved group are “good victims.” Those who suffer at the hands of these protected groups are not afforded this same status. In fact, “bad victims,” such as the middle school teacher, as well as I, are made to feel responsible for being assaulted. Good victims are showered with attention because they reinforce the Leftist party line.
The Left needs to control popular opinion by censoring information that’s unflattering to their cause.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2667203/posts
“Why do you say “with malice aforethought”?”
In this case, it’s the clinical basis for the charge of 2nd Degree Murder.
As they described: “An intent to willfully act in callous and wanton disregard of the consequences to human life; but malice aforethought does not necessarily imply any ill will, spite or hatred towards the individual killed.”
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