16-Year-Old Drunk Driver Who Killed Four Escapes Jail — Because He Is Rich!

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Communist! His parents worked hard for that money, shouldn't they be allowed to spend it however they wish?
 
Communist! His parents worked hard for that money, shouldn't they be allowed to spend it however they wish?


This young man got probation instead of 20 years because of the way he was raised by his wealthy parents. Gosh, in that case over 80% of all prisoners were raised in abusive homes and they didn’t get a light sentence. (Affluenza!) Bottom line is without the money he would be doing 20 years!
 


This young man got probation instead of 20 years because of the way he was raised by his wealthy parents. Gosh, in that case over 80% of all prisoners were raised in abusive homes and they didn’t get a light sentence. (Affluenza!) Bottom line is without the money he would be doing 20 years!



Well, which is it.....

over 80% of all prisoners were raised in abusive homes...? Does that prove these homes were all poor ? Or all wealthy ?

Can you describe the way he was raised that caused him to get probation...

Do people from abusive home get heavier prison terms ?

Was "this young man"...raised by wealthy parents in an abusive home or not....and what the fuck does it have to do with being poor or wealthy ?

wtf is you point ?
 
this is fucking GENIUS. I say this as someone who's grandma was killed by a drunk driver.

Money wins again proles.

:dealwithit:
 
The problem here is not money and not the parents....the problem is this incompetant judge that passed judgement....
HE is the problem with justice not being served....not money....
This asshole was probably paid off hansomely for his verdict.....
When you are offered some goodies for doing the wrong thing and you accept....certainly the briber is wrong to offer, but the one
that accepts the bribe is the one I blame the most because its usually he that has the power.
 
mens rea you guys.

I don't believe in punishing people for accidents.

Putting someone in jail isn't going to bring the dead back.

A treatment center is what he and other drunk drivers need. Not punitive vengeful punishment.

Put some good into the world, don't cause more misery.

This is the same choice my family made when my grandmother was killed. The guy was just a kid, we knew it was a huge fuck up and an accident, and we knew that nothing was going to bring her back. better try to get as much good out of the situation as possible.

We walk the walk and talk the talk.

the 20 year sentence hanging over this guys head was fucking absurd.

When I used to work in the court system I saw the trial of a woman who was at a .13 alcohol level. She killed her own daughter when she and their family went on a joy ride and rolled their minivan. She was given TWO YEARS. That's IT! The judge basically said "welp, you killed your kid, don't think any punishment could be as bad as that." The prosecutor even then was only asking for 5-7.

That's the way it should be. Not this bullshit petty vengeance game. Drunk drivers aren't psychopaths that are just going to go around killing people. You can give them treatment and they'll be able to contribute to society in a meaningful way.
 
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Why doesn't the kid deserve misery, Grind? Lots of people deserve it, and it seems like most of them don't get it, or at least enough of it.
 
Why doesn't the kid deserve misery, Grind? Lots of people deserve it, and it seems like most of them don't get it, or at least enough of it.

I already said why -_-

People, in addressing unfairness, always want to bring people down, rather than rise people up. These people (people like ken) are jealous, social parasites. Thieves of money, production, and industry, the useless unwashed masses being unable to contribute something meaningful, need to make everyone else as useless as they are.

I think that speaks a lot to how sick and twisted many people are. They want the schadenfreude. It's pathetic, and reeks of insecurity. Proles will be proles though and there is no helping them, and that's why proles and animals are free.

To the extent we have inequality in our justice system (at least as it pertains to drunk driving manslaughter cases), the solution isn't to punish more rich white kids. Maybe it should just be to go easier on poor minority kids.
 
this is fucking GENIUS. I say this as someone who's grandma was killed by a drunk driver.

Money wins again proles.

:dealwithit:

I am very sorry about your grandma. I do hope the civil suits cite the parents, since they were the 'cause,' as defined by the ruling.
 
i wasn't playing the dead grandmother card. Just getting that out there before some mouthbreather said that "if it was your loved one, you would feel different!"

Nope. I am principled.
 
we treat substance abuse in the wrong way in this country.

and yes this kid got off much better than a kid without a great lawyer would.


why do you people on the right always pretend people say things they did not say?
 
There's an easy solution to this problem. Like the UK nationalized the health profession, we just nationalize the legal profession.

No more private practice of law. All attorneys will work for the state or national governments. When a case is filed in court an attorney is selected from a pool on a rotation basis. Next attorney up in the rotation represents the defendant, then the next attorney up represents the plaintiff/prosecutor. This will be done for both civil and criminal cases.

Benefits include:

*No more rich guilty people getting off by hiring high-powered attorneys
*No more rich corporations winning with a flock of high-powered attorneys when being sued for negligence by a poor Joe 6 Pack.

Just like rich people do not deserve better health care, they do not deserve better legal representation. Equality for all, and it can be achieved by government action.

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Bottom line...the kid got off because his parents are wealthy. It ain't right. Oh yea, Proverbs 13:24.
 
he didn't get off.

he just did not get put in jail for 20 years.


because he had the money to hire the best lawyers.
 
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