Too harsh? Or - Finally. Justice is served.
Should happen more often.
Thank you, Texas.
People that simply can’t control themselves in a way that is dangerous to others need to be permanently removed from civilization. It sucks to be her, but the odds of her eventually killing someone are absurdly high if she remains at large.
Whether it is too harsh or not, she made an informed decision by her actions. She knew that repeating her past behavior would lead to felony charges.
Should have happened sooner. 3 DWI’s should trigger an automatic life sentence
My neighbor has had about 10 arrests for DUI. More than that many PIs.
Never spent any time until he smacked his wife. Got 3 months.
They finally took his license but he has had 3 more public intox arrests since.
He has high medical costs so the county doesn’t want him in jail
it IS harsh but necessary. Hopefully a few sentences like this will encourage other people with this problem to get help or stop driving.
With a name like that I bet she wasnt an illegal alien..
Plus an illegal alien would walk...
guess she won’t be drinking or driving from now on
God Bless Texas.
Life = 45 years
Substract 1/3 for overcrowding = 15 years
Substract 1/3 for good time = 15 years
Substract X more on appeals and she’s looking at 10-15 years max.
I could agree to this if she was caught drive DRUNK 6 times.
But with the insane .05 standard of ‘drunk’ today fully half of everyone that has ever stopped for a beer after work would qualify as ‘drunk’.
In Michigan they invented a new classification of ‘drunk driving’ that requires no drug or alcohol content at all. If a cop says you were ‘acting’ drunk or impaired you are deemed guilty of said act and charged the same as a falling down drunk.
” Operating while visibly impaired (OWVI) means the driver’s blood alcohol level was below 0.08, but an officer determined the driver appeared impaired.”
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2013/08/daybook_recent_drunken_driving_47.html
Be sure to click the link and read about those poor saps fined over $1000 and tossed in jail for 90 days for ‘OWVI’!
Everyone reading this that wouldn’t lose their job for spending 90 days in jail for a Bull$hit made up charge like this please raise your hand?
IF she appeals, I think that the sentence will be overturned as excessive. Child rapists get lighter sentences.
Good. I’ve said for many years that after the first (I’ll give a mistake) DUI should be tried as attempted murder.
She has never hurt anyone in her 6 convictions. I bet there are people who have had 6 actual accidents and aren’t in prison for life.
We just ended this woman’s life because she is deemed too big of a RISK of causing harm to others.
Not at all too harsh. Trauma room surgeon in Seattle recently revealed that more than half of their patients were in alcohol related incidents. He was treating the almost-dead wife and ten day old son of Dan Schulte, whose parents, newly retired schoolteachers, were killed instantly in a drunk-driver accident that almost killed the wife and child too.
Driver had several DUI convictions.
Dan’s son, revived from death, had severe brain injuries, no one knows how well his brain will develop as he grows up. His wife, a Children’s Hospital nurse, will never be the same, still having surgeries and in a rehab facility months after the accident. Can now say a few words. And then there’s the millions of dollars in medical bills and lifetime care Dan is faced with. A very nice young man, with a decent but not particularly rewarding job in a PR agency.
So yes, throw these idiot drunk drivers in jail, sooner rather than later, and keep them there. How many families have to go through this agony?
While this woman was being sentenced (she’d never injured nor killed anyone while driving), another woman was released from the Travis county jail after serving 180 days.
The second woman had been given probation after drunkenly running over, and killing a woman...she said that she thought she hit a deer.
Go figger.
I tend to think life in prison for DUI is a little harsh, although if that’s the only way to keep these idiots off the road, so bet it.
Why does it take 2-3 DUI convictions for it to become a felony? In Canada the very first DUI conviction is a criminal conviction, with significant fines - I can’t recall if jail time is mandatory or not on a first conviction. I actually think that a criminal record for a first conviction is a little too harsh - with BAC limits as low as they are now, it’s not difficult to accidentally run afoul of the law, once. For subsequent convictions I have no sympathy - one conviction is more than enough warning.
Most of these people who have multiple DUIs are hard core drunks and habitual drunk drivers. Nothing seems to stop them - one way or another, licensed or no, they keep getting behind the wheel drunk. It’s unfortunate, but for the safety of everyone else on (or near) the road, jail may be the only way to stop them.