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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The CA asked for the max sentence, and the judge did not grant it!  That means the judge (who is not Parisa) saw evidence that this child did not need to punished the full extent of the law.

Is this story still incredibly tragic for the Meade family? Yes.  His loss is simply awful.  And I am sorry they felt they weren't heard.  But it seems like there's mostly rumors etc about the teen driver, when the judge's job is to look at FACTS and make a decision.[/quote]

And this is where I see the system failing us.  I voted for Parisa and I honestly don’t know whether this has more to do with her, or just a significant systemic accountability gap that has eroded the public’s faith in the justice system.  You refer to the facts that the judge based his decision on, but as a member of the general public the only access to facts I have is that an almost 18 year old was speeding over 90 miles per hour while drunk and high on a residential road causing the death of a child.  I would love to base my opinion on some augmented set of facts, but I’m left now only with rumors to fill in the public information gap, and frankly those rumors don’t paint a very sympathetic picture. If the public is going to have to settle for “the judge just knew more than you and you should accept the outcome,” don’t be surprised when the public loses faith.[/quote]

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