Driver with >100 arrests and 40 traffic citations, kills dog-walking musician

[Anonymous]

How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

[Anonymous]

This incident happened just down the road from where I live.

As a former prosecutor I could tell you nightmare stories about the rap sheets I’ve seen on defendants before me in court.

Suffice to say that even if the system does everything right, it cannot control criminality and it is very much not uncommon for people with suspended or revoked licenses to be out there driving, without insurance coverage, and engaging in other illegality to boot.

Our legal system is already overwhelmed, underfunded and underresourced as it has been for decades. And all the time I see stories about taxpayers up in arms over proposed tax increases to build a better or bigger jail in their community or the community that their town or city pays to house their arrestees.

So many Americans talk big on law and order, but they don’t actually want to pay for law and order. So yes the system prioritizes the most violent criminals over those engaged in less violent crimes, and sometimes the result is something like this.

For what it’s worth, I’ve also seen plenty of law abiding drivers kill or seriously injure pedestrians or bicyclists because so many law abiding people who don’t drive under the influence of substances DO drive under the influence of their distracting digital gadgets.

Life sucks really hard sometimes. Very sad for this relatively vibrant elder’s early demise. I hope he was struck unconscious immediately - he probably was. The defendant will definitely be going into prison now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This incident happened just down the road from where I live.

As a former prosecutor I could tell you nightmare stories about the rap sheets I’ve seen on defendants before me in court.

Suffice to say that even if the system does everything right, it cannot control criminality and it is very much not uncommon for people with suspended or revoked licenses to be out there driving, without insurance coverage, and engaging in other illegality to boot.

Our legal system is already overwhelmed, underfunded and underresourced as it has been for decades. And all the time I see stories about taxpayers up in arms over proposed tax increases to build a better or bigger jail in their community or the community that their town or city pays to house their arrestees.

So many Americans talk big on law and order, but they don’t actually want to pay for law and order. So yes the system prioritizes the most violent criminals over those engaged in less violent crimes, and sometimes the result is something like this.

For what it’s worth, I’ve also seen plenty of law abiding drivers kill or seriously injure pedestrians or bicyclists because so many law abiding people who don’t drive under the influence of substances DO drive under the influence of their distracting digital gadgets.

Life sucks really hard sometimes. Very sad for this relatively vibrant elder’s early demise. I hope he was struck unconscious immediately - he probably was. The defendant will definitely be going into prison now.

I’m a current prosecutor and agree with this completely.

I also think part of the issue is that, as a society, we aren’t really sure what we want in terms of criminal justice. On the one hand, we complain about overprosecution of low level offenders and sending nonviolent offenders to jail. On the other, when a habitual low level offender hurts someone, we complain that they’ve been let off the hook too many times in the past. Those two things are contradictory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

1) are you against social justice? Because if so please mental health help

2) you dropped some comment in your racism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

1) are you against social justice? Because if so please mental health help

2) you dropped some comment in your racism

Don't be daft. This driver should not have been driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

1) are you against social justice? Because if so please mental health help

2) you dropped some comment in your racism

What racism?

[Anonymous]

She is the type of person that needs to be locked up, not some migrant worker working on a farm. Jeezus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

1) are you against social justice? Because if so please mental health help

2) you dropped some comment in your racism

What racism?

+1. what racism ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is the type of person that needs to be locked up, not some migrant worker working on a farm. Jeezus.

+1

According to police, officers found she had "numerous illegal narcotics and packaging materials commonly associated with drug distribution."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

1) are you against social justice? Because if so please mental health help

2) you dropped some comment in your racism

Given this is Shannon Godbout in Rhode Island not sure what you may think is racist. A wild ass guess will tell you she may be white. And looking her up, seems a good bet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

1) are you against social justice? Because if so please mental health help

2) you dropped some comment in your racism

What racism?

She's taking good paying jobs from unlicensed street pharmacists.

[Anonymous]

The killer driver

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[Anonymous]

The killer driver

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

Why? Because Rhode Island is a strong liberal and Democratic state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How is this even possible?

https://www.wcvb.com/article/godbout-macleod-hopkinton-ri-fatal-crash/69663985

How can a driver be given 40 traffic citations in addition to over 100 arrests, and still be just driving around out there? Plus, she had an SUV full of drug-dealing supplies at the time.

Why wasn’t she in jail or at least have had her SUV impounded ?

Why? Because Rhode Island is a strong liberal and Democratic state.

Total crap assertion, poster. I’m the former prosecutor who posted second in this thread and the very long rap sheets of defendants, many with multiples DUIs, that I routinely saw in my practice were in red state MONTANA.

These issues in our criminal justice system are UNIVERSAL across blue and red states alike. I’ve been to multiple national trainings and have professional relationships with prosecutors all over the country, and beyond my practice I’ve made a habit of following the issues of criminal justice reform closely. This is NOT a blue state problem and you probably won’t accept that because you’re not interested in facts or solving complex problems, you’re a knee jerk reactionary only interesting in bleating the red hat sheep code of the day.

Why is your leader pardoning serious drug crime king pins? Why is he pardoning Jan 6ers who assaulted law enforcement officers? Have you noticed how many of those people have since been rearrested on despicable criminal behavior? STFU, you’re not a serious human being.