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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good. A 17y old is not an adult and should not be tried as one. I feel very sorry for the victim’s family, but trying this juvenile as an adult would not bring the victim back ir do squat for the family’s pain. [/quote]

And I’m just SURE you would feel the same way if your own child was murdered by a drunk.

Liar.[/quote]

DP, but that's the point. Victim's families are too close to the matter emotionally to make these decisions. If it were my kid, I would be devastated and probably cry for blood...that's why I wouldn't be on the jury, or be the judge and prosecutor.

Law and justice is not about emotion, in the end, or it shouldn't be.[/quote]

But the criminal justice system, when it works properly, is supposed to result in punishments that are appropriate and proportionate to the crime. In this instance, policies that are generally designed to yield a balanced result, failed the victim’s family and the community miserably.  Because there has been no criminal accountability for an incredibly serious crime, you will see outrage in the community and from the victim’s family and possibly lawsuits so driven by passionate anger that there is no room to settle or do anything other than seek some sort of legal or public consequence that the criminal justice system failed to deliver.[/quote]

If he were an adult.

He’s not. 
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