DWI: Is It Murder?
August 2, 2009 4:55 PM
With DWI fatalities staying constant despite all the campaigns against the crime, some prosecutors are pursuing harsher penalties against perpetrators, including long prison terms for those who caused deaths. Bob Simon reports.
DWI Deaths: Is It Murder?







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See all 134 CommentsAnd then bastard is appealing his sentence?????????????? I wish the little girl and the driver could appeal theirs!! TO HELL WITH DEFENSE LAWYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kathleen Rice states, "Anything that makes someone think... that's going to be a deterrent." This is not a deterrent to the case at hand nor others this severe because the driver was obviously beyond the point of thinking in any reasonable way. The man was driving on the wrong side of a parkway. Would it ever cross his mind, or the mind of others in that state of inebriation that the court will have a strong sentence for what I'm about to do?
Yes, the family deserves justice but this is too extreme.
There is no way that Ms. Rice believes this is equivalent to holding a gun to someone five feet away and shooting them. It is part of her political agenda and it is easy to single out a tragedy and feed upon it.
My sympathies for the family, I could not fathom such a tragedy, but altering laws for unconscious decisions should not continue.
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