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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a distinction between children and adults in our society. The family is in pain. How is trying him as an adult going to make their pain go away? How many years sentence is supposed to make their pain go away? I feel for this family, but, I also think it is important to make a distinction between children and adults in our criminal justice system.[/quote]

Nothing will make the family’s pain go away, but giving a joke of a sentence certainly must contribute to it. And even if you don’t really give a crap about any sort of justice for the victim, there are other reasons a harsher sentence was warranted.

For one, we all preach to our teens what a big deal DUI is in the hopes they’ll be scared of the consequences. But then they see a peer chill out in his parents’ big, nice home for a year after killing someone. Sort of sends some mixed messages about the seriousness of the crime.

It also doesn’t really teach a lesson. There is absolutely no reason to believe the killer won’t just go right back to doing what he was doing before once his time is up. DUIs have a huge recidivism rate. Locking him up for longer could save other people’s lives. There is also the community that elects its prosecutors expecting that crimes will be appropriately punished. I’d say a good portion of the public doesn’t feel crime has been appropriately handled in this case. 1 year of an at home sentence is what you give a teen who got caught selling their ADHD meds at school or something. Not someone who recklessly killed somebody. [/quote]

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