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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
I was wondering this---how much of a factor is the drinking anyway? Whether intoxicated or not he made some serious errors. Is the difference that if he was drinking it exhibited criminal negligence as opposed to merely making a mistake while driving? What about the potential impact on his sentence?
Honestly I do feel bad for him, I don't think he wanted for any of this to happen. And people all make mistakes, and we are all surprised at times about how stupid those mistakes can be. Most of the time it doesn't involve driving a cement truck and not noticing 2 sets of warning lights and a stopped car until we hit it, but all to often 'there but for the grace of God go I'.
It is just kind of sad for him to be trying to tell ridiculous stories to absolve himself of some responsibility. At this point to me you apologize, take it like a man, and home for some leniency.
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I think whether he was impaired or not will only affect the length of his sentence. Tschetter's defence counsel was interviewed after yesterday's proceedings and he stated that one of the goals of having Tschetter testify was to show that he was a human being. There was a perception that he was a monster; some drunk driver that murdered a family of five and then tried to cover his tracks. It was counsel's hope that hearing the accused's side of the story in his own words would humanize him, I suppose, and show that he's just an average family man who had a bad day, wasn't paying attention and got into a horrible accident that he will regret until the end of his days.