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What is with the outrage? Just another rich kid, getting off with no consequences for killing someone....hardly the first time....won't be the last time.
What is with the outrage? Just another rich kid, getting off with no consequences for killing someone....hardly the first time....won't be the last time.
You have a good point. I guess since this was so blatantly insulting to everyone who heard about it that is why it made news
The real issue is that this continues to happen, with no consequences. Which is why, laws need to be changed, to demand consistent sentencing guidelines. You are old enough to accept the responsibility to drive a car, and kill someone, that means there should be some accountability. That MAY create a change in behavior. The knowledge that there would be consequences, no matter how old or young you maybe...
Drive a car, kill someone, mandatory prison until age 21. Review record, recommend probation or continued sentence. That would change the behavior!
I don't believe mandatory minimums are the answer, I mean look at drug offenders. You are taking the power out of the judges AND jury's hands. And you can see how well mandatory minimums have worked to curb drug use and distribution. I do believe that the biggest injustice regarding sentencing is the disparity between race and sex, not socioeconomic status.
In this case, yes, it would have been justified. However I would not agree to endorse mandatory minimums on all cases to fix this one. Overall, mandatory minimums often are a social injustice, especially in victimless crimes.
Of course they will you can't let a good tragedy go to waste now can you? Mandatory Minimums may fix a small group of truly horrible events BUT it will negatively impact a much larger group.
Of course this point would be a non issue if you're connected to the prison industrial complex.
It is my opinion that a hard look should be taken to see what steps could be reasonably taken to hold the parents criminally responsible in situations like this that are really no different then if one of the parents had handed their young child a loaded gun and told him to "go play".
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