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The man who lost his wife and daughter was interviewed by Anderson Cooper tonight, very tragic. The boy was caught driving a car on school grounds when he was 13 and his parents transferred him to another school, now he is going to a $50K clinic to supposedly rehab. No one is responsible for their actions anymore.
I don't know of any prior DWI like this with a minor, if he was an adult he would do time. The parents have been missing in action for hos entire life.
Exactly. It doesn't matter who you are. If you got a couple hundred thousand lying around the floor to toss to the judge, you are untouchable.
Agreed tho many dirty Kennedys DID die real young except for Teddy. That drunkard IMHO needed to be tossed in jail for the rest of his life after he killed that lady back in 1969.
Agreed tho many dirty Kennedys DID die real young except for Teddy. That drunkard IMHO needed to be tossed in jail for the rest of his life after he killed that lady back in 1969.
I agree, too. But, sadly, I'm not being political about this at all. When it comes to the super rich, one fact is certain. The Warren Buffets, Kennedy's, and Kochs of this world will almost certainly ALWAYS not be held accountable for any crimes they commit. It's only once in a great long while where a rich person goes to prison (Bernie Madoff), but that is only because somebody's got to go to prison once in a while. Need to keep up the illusion that everyone is innocent until proven guilty (unless you are in the top 0.1%, then are you either innocent or just misunderstood)
The scumbag's defense attorney disagrees with you. He called an "expert witness" - so nice to be able to afford to shop around for those - whose actual argument was that the wealth of scumbag's parents (and the behavior of said parents) had kept him from consequences.
Or in his words:“He never learned that sometimes you don’t get your way,” Miller said. “He had the cars and he had the money. He had freedoms that no young man would be able to handle.”
The kid growing up rich and sheltered was the linchpin for the defense's argument.
Oh, and it gets better: The defense suggested a lengthy "treatment stay" near Newport Beach, CA. Or, in plain English: Ship the kid off to a nice beach estate and hire someone to keep him out of trouble for a year or so, until everybody - well, everybody who counts - has forgotten about the incident. (The parents are graciously offering to pay.) Lovely, innit?
Actually, it likely has little or nothing to do with money.
I did a Google search for "DWI Manslaughter probation". Here's the very first result. This was written in 2010. It says that in Dallas County TX, (which is less than an hour from where this jackass killed those people,) more then 40% of DWI manslaughter result in the perpetrators seeing any jail time. The fault is in the law & the legal system.
American society is very unfair. Much more so than most of the countries accused of being unfair.
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