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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-08-13 3:45 PM, wrote:

> Well IMO it's okay if the drunk driver dies but very often it's not. A
> married in aunt had a sister who was coming home from a school concert
> with her husband and two children. They were hit by an elderly male
> driving drunk as a skunk. The husband and daughter died, she was left
> to live with a son who was a veggie, it was all terribly sad. The
> nasty old drunk barely had a scratch
>

I don't have a problem with them throwing the book at people who drive
drunk and crash, especially when there are fatalities. My issue is more
about the treatment of people who simply blow a little over the limit.
I am thinking of a case of an east coast driver who racked up about a
dozen convictions for DUI, all for blowing over the limit, but who had
not crashed, and they threw the book at him/ He got a couple years in
prison. Around the same there was a local case of a young woman who was
driving drunk, crashed her car and killed her best friend.
She got a couple months of house arrest.

I accept that the guy was a repeat offender who apparently didn't learn
from his earlier convictions and the sentences he received, but I figure
that the the most serious punishment should be applied in the worst case
scenarios. He was sentenced to jail because his previous punishment
didn't teach him about the possibility of being one of those worst case
scenarios... like the crash she was involved in. She was in a single car
accident and killed her friend, but she ended up with a much, much
lighter sentence.