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Originally Posted by alantf
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Originally Posted by 3-D Video
I'd say 50 years for vehicular homicide sounds more like some ignorant, spiteful, pecker-wood judge ran that show.
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But if EVERY judge in EVERY court handed down these sentences, I'd feel a lot safer, knowing that car drivers would have more incentive to be careful. |
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Originally Posted by blaine
Just read in the morning paper that a young lady that had struck & killed a lady in a wheel chair at a crosswalk has received early parole.After the accident she left the scene and tried to hide the fact.She Originally received a two year sentence.But the National Parole Board granted her parole after six months served.This happened here in the maritime Provences.
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So much for the threat of prison as an incentive to be careful. With only a few exceptions (like Joe), it is used as a consolatory action.