"Affluenza" as a DUI defense...

Bubblehead1980 · 12-12-13, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Four dead and a slap on the wrist. Just what is being paid for?

Ten years of probation is no slap on the wrist and I am sure if he screws up, he will be violated pretty fast.Living under the thumb of a probation officer for a decade, can not imagine that.I am sure no alcohol is part his probation.I am sure he will, especially once off in college and will likely get caught. I have not lived under probation but heard stories and seen it, I shadowed a probation officer for a week in college, she was tough, esp when ti came to those on felony probation.Not the joke everyone thinks it is.

CaptainHaplo · 12-12-13, 07:08 PM

4 people are dead because of his idiocy.

If it was a kid that age whose parents were making 50k between them and living paycheck to paycheck - do you think that he would have gotten the same outcome?

You can't say he would. Thus - blind lady justice wasn't so blind - therefore the system didn't work.

Equal punishment for equal crime. While the defense may have been "creative" - the outcome is a travesty of justice.

Bubblehead1980 · 12-12-13, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

4 people are dead because of his idiocy.

If it was a kid that age whose parents were making 50k between them and living paycheck to paycheck - do you think that he would have gotten the same outcome?

You can't say he would. Thus - blind lady justice wasn't so blind - therefore the system didn't work.

Equal punishment for equal crime. While the defense may have been "creative" - the outcome is a travesty of justice.

Depends on his lawyer, if they managed to get him a good one and not a public pretender etc, possible. No evidence to suggest Judge was paid off and went easy because kid comes from a well off family. Not a travesty of justice, kid made a stupid, costly mistake and will pay for it with a decade of his life under the thumb of a PO.

Buddahaid · 12-12-13, 07:48 PM

At least he has a life still. I feel so sorry for him.

12-12-13, 08:31 PM

Drunk drivers

Aktungbby · 12-12-13, 08:38 PM

Right up there with my favorite: the Harvey Milk/Dan White 'twinkie' defense in San Francisco!

Stealhead · 12-12-13, 09:26 PM

My defense will be that it was Wilson's fault which in turn was Harding's fault which in turn was Coolidge's fault which in turn was Hoover's fault which in turn was Roosevelt's fault which in turn was Truman's fault which in turn was Eisenhower's fault which in turn was Kennedy's fault which in turn was Nixon's fault which in turn was Ford's fault(only partly because he never got elected to office) which in turn was Carter's fault which in turn was Regan's fault which in turn was Bush's fault which in turn was Clinton's fault which in turn was Bush's fault(son not the father) which in turn it is Obama's fault that I ate too any Twinkies and beat the crap out of the kid that got off for having Affluenza.

swamprat69er · 12-13-13, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

At least he has a life still. I feel so sorry for him.

He will remember what he did for the rest of his life. I hope he has a long one.

August · 12-13-13, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by swamprat69er

He will remember what he did for the rest of his life. I hope he has a long one.

Unfortunately that only works if he has a conscience. Maybe he'll grow one someday. Maybe.

swamprat69er · 12-13-13, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by August

Unfortunately that only works if he has a conscience. Maybe he'll grow one someday. Maybe.

Maybe he wil screw up again while under probation and he might get lucky and get a judge that will actually punish him for all of his crimes.
We can only hope.

12-13-13, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Unfortunately that only works if he has a conscience. Maybe he'll grow one someday. Maybe.

Yep, it would look like his sense of entitlement has eroded anything resembling a conscience.

12-12-13, 07:08 PM	#2
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	4 people are dead because of his idiocy. If it was a kid that age whose parents were making 50k between them and living paycheck to paycheck - do you think that he would have gotten the same outcome? You can't say he would. Thus - blind lady justice wasn't so blind - therefore the system didn't work. Equal punishment for equal crime. While the defense may have been "creative" - the outcome is a travesty of justice. __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo

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Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,332 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	At least he has a life still. I feel so sorry for him. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,085 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Right up there with my favorite: the Harvey Milk/Dan White 'twinkie' defense in San Francisco! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Tribesman Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Drunk drivers

12-12-13, 09:26 PM	#7
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	My defense will be that it was Wilson's fault which in turn was Harding's fault which in turn was Coolidge's fault which in turn was Hoover's fault which in turn was Roosevelt's fault which in turn was Truman's fault which in turn was Eisenhower's fault which in turn was Kennedy's fault which in turn was Nixon's fault which in turn was Ford's fault(only partly because he never got elected to office) which in turn was Carter's fault which in turn was Regan's fault which in turn was Bush's fault which in turn was Clinton's fault which in turn was Bush's fault(son not the father) which in turn it is Obama's fault that I ate too any Twinkies and beat the crap out of the kid that got off for having Affluenza.