[DoughtyOne]

One person struck an individual with her car.  She had been drinking.  She had been doing drugs.

When she got home, the victim was still alive begging for mercy.  She allowed him to die instead.

She was afraid the police would find out she had been driving while under the influence, then involved in a serious accident.

She got fifty years for killing an innocent person.  She got an additional ten years for tampering with evidence.
 

One person drove off a bridge.  He had been drinking.  It is unknown what else he may have been doing.

He didn't get home.  Neither did the person traveling in the car with him.  The car went under water.  We will never know if the female involved might have made it if only he had notified the authorities immediately.  She died instead.

He was afraid the police would find out that he had been driving while under the influence, then involved in a serious accident.

He received probation, became a United States Senator and serves to this day.

[dts32041]

Your point is?

[DoughtyOne]

I believe it took between ten and twelve hours for Ted Kennedy to sober up and notify authorities about his accident and Mary Joe Kopeckne.

What a man...

[null and void]

And Mary Jo's body was promptly cremated - I guess we'll never know if she was pregnant, either...

[glock rocks]

oldsmobile bump!

[1066AD]

He received probation, became a United States Senator and serves to this day.
Best justice money can buy, influence & a complicit press helps too.