Does the punishment fit the crime?

should be life no parole

 

He lawyered up. Affluenza is a silent killer.

Mask up and combat it on the streets?

 

I said SHOULD, not will. Laws against stuff like drunk driving are pathetic, this is also pitiful

 

He must be really good at golf.

 

Moving violations aren't enforced or punished enough. Killing someone with a car is easy to get away with.

 

Yup, over 10k people die from drunk driving every year but because nobody can score political points by going after it, nobody will ever give a crap (unless a super famous person gets killed by a drunk driver maybe?)

 

Moving vehicles are deadly weapons. I think the punishment for killing someone due to DUI or in this case street racing should be 25 to life. It's not an accident that you decided to drink or race on a public roadway, you consciously made these life threatening decision.

I think in this case, deciding to drive 106 MPH racing on a highway and killing someone is equivalent to discharging a gun in a public space and killing someone.

 

This is one of those things that always feels extremely unfair. Normally the idiot breaking the rules seems to have a much better chance of walking away from the accident than the innocent person who gets hit.

 

My thoughts exactly. Boys will be boys...

Good old boy network is alive and thriving. Money + networking (shared deviant acts) = success!

I had a buddy who's grandfather was a County Judge for over 50 years, so his family had a lot of pull. My buddy constantly got DUIs and got out of them. The only way he stopped is the advent of Uber. The irony is he was a truck driver for Budweiser.


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OTOH, liberal states have lax penalties across the board. My ex-GF's brother hit and killed a man drunk driving in Indiana in the 90's. He got out of jail on parole after 4 years.

But on the flip side, we have stupid strict penalties for minor infractions in conservative states. 'Tough on Crime!' is a political tag.

 

Stone everyone

 

You'd think in TX they'd go all 2nd Amendment, but in Ft. Worth they went Biblical instead.

 

Six years in prison is adequate. I think people toss around these super long sentences pretty cavalierly, especially when one is a person unlikely to ever face the punishment -- like me. But doing 6 years (or even 3 plus parole) would eff up your life. If I did 6 years, by the time I got out my kids would have all grown up and moved out, my earning potential would be half of what it is now, who knows if I'd still have a wife but she'd have had to figure out how to replace my income and raise our kids by herself, my parents might be dead by then, the dog would definitely be dead, the house would have had to have been sold. Most people would be pretty sorry they did whatever they did after what we'd call a short prison stint. Making it longer doesn't make a person more sorry nor more deterred. I think we need to get off this train where committing a crime means you should die in prison.

I do think probation or even 9 months in juvenile detention is pretty damn light. But that lightness is largely due to the luck of his age. He's a juvenile and the district attorney apparently has taken a policy of not charging minors as adults. Which I can't really disagree with, given how that latitude can be used to perpetuate racism in the justice system. He'll get sentenced in August, so hopefully someone will bump this thread once we know what the actual sentence is.