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Originally Posted by chubeyr1
Personally I think the sentence is way too soft.
Guy gets into a fight in a bar and punches someone. That person dies and he gets life 10 in prison. Eligible for parole after 10 years, yet will be monitored for the rest of his/her life.
Intent was not to kill the guy.
Drunk driver, driving at 290 kph, loses control killing his passenger and a mother and daughter in the other vehicle. Gets 4 years, out walking the streets after 16 months. I know this person. He says he is not a criminal, it was just an accident. Karma came back to town when his father was hit and killed by a drunk driver. He calls this murder.
This guy killed 16 people, and injured many more. Intent was not there to kill either. I get that!
This was a really soft sentence for all the lives this guy took. He will be out of prison in 32 months. Probably deported to live as a free man in his native country. Will be driving again in 32 months.
That is 2 months per life he took. Not to mention the ones that were seriously injured that survived.
If my kid was killed and all the driver got was 2 months in prison I would be livid. A childs life is worth way way more than that.
Yet this was an accident? This was not an accident. You get behind a wheel of a vehicle, you are driving a weapon down the road. Being a bad driver is no excuse. You choose to drive. You make a choice.
Would a longer sentence help any of the victim families? I think it would. 2 months in prison for taking your child’s life? That is really soft.
Guy gets into a fight in a bar and stays in jail for 10 years before a chance at parole. One life!
If this was you or I and we got in an accident and killed 16 people and injured others. Then were sentenced like this you would hug your lawyer.
Guy had a really good lawyer.
What sentence would be fitting for this? At minimum I think 10 years before being eligible for parole. Still only 7.5 months for every life this man took. That is still a soft sentence.
Feel free to disagree. Yet the justice system is a mess. How much value is one’s life worth? 2 months in prison? If you were killed tomorrow? Would you think 2 months of prison would be worth your life?
Really soft sentence. 16 lives were lost, many more now live with disabilities for the rest of their lives.
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Sorry trying to follow along here on your logic but why would he be out in 32 months? Wasn’t the sentence 8 years? Are you talking about parole?
But if you are there’s no guarantee for out on parole is there? Also is there a set timeline for parole?