Today's UL story makes me remember this entry I have yet to publish:
I wonder how that could happen. One word: leniency. In Europe they pull you over and forcibly extract blood if a reasonable suspicion--really just any suspicion--exists about alcohol being in the system, impairing driving.
One case fairly recently of a drunk Charlestown, NH, woman, Marilyn Demond-Surace, who plowed into a motorcycle while turning into their lane. The bike was carrying two young people, Justin Aiken and Robin Flaig, got my attention when sloppy policework and lax county prosecutors let much of the evidence just slip through their incompetent fingers of the suspect police at the scene described as "calm and sarcastic." Yes, blogger, your indignation is well placed.
She got one year for vehicularmanslaughter "assault." One year for killing two young people? We're obviously not serious about this grave crime, and their are lawyers like hers--Robert Stein of Concord--who are skilled in using technicalities to get people who cause mayhem and death on the highways and byways to get very little of a sentence.
But in this state don't get caught harming an animal. Then people will really come out of the woodwork to prosecute in a more serious way. At least this disturbing story though the evidence doesn't seem to be more than a "he said/ she said" dispute between alienated neighbors. Notwithstanding this, the man received three and a half to seven years in jail. Which strikes me (no pun intended) as about right, if the DWI killer had received seven to 15 years in jail.
Fourteen days for a DWI conviction of vehicular manslaughter (one death) in Kansas for a guy's second DUI? You've got to be kidding me! I wonder if the defending attorney in that case, Terry Campbell, would have fun swapping stories with Robert Stein about the wonderful tricks they used in getting guilty clients off the hook.
Meanwhile the deaths keep piling up, thousands each year. Rachel Leek, may you rest in peace.
I wonder how that could happen. One word: leniency. In Europe they pull you over and forcibly extract blood if a reasonable suspicion--really just any suspicion--exists about alcohol being in the system, impairing driving.
One case fairly recently of a drunk Charlestown, NH, woman, Marilyn Demond-Surace, who plowed into a motorcycle while turning into their lane. The bike was carrying two young people, Justin Aiken and Robin Flaig, got my attention when sloppy policework and lax county prosecutors let much of the evidence just slip through their incompetent fingers of the suspect police at the scene described as "calm and sarcastic." Yes, blogger, your indignation is well placed.
She got one year for vehicular
But in this state don't get caught harming an animal. Then people will really come out of the woodwork to prosecute in a more serious way. At least this disturbing story though the evidence doesn't seem to be more than a "he said/ she said" dispute between alienated neighbors. Notwithstanding this, the man received three and a half to seven years in jail. Which strikes me (no pun intended) as about right, if the DWI killer had received seven to 15 years in jail.
Fourteen days for a DWI conviction of vehicular manslaughter (one death) in Kansas for a guy's second DUI? You've got to be kidding me! I wonder if the defending attorney in that case, Terry Campbell, would have fun swapping stories with Robert Stein about the wonderful tricks they used in getting guilty clients off the hook.
Meanwhile the deaths keep piling up, thousands each year. Rachel Leek, may you rest in peace.
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