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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This family is clearly loaded. I hope that did not have anything to do with the outcome.[/quote]
Of course it did.  They persuaded the judge to give an even lower sentence.  Effective advocacy isn’t cheap.  Although the prosecutor’s actions were disgraceful, rich people who commit DUI homicide get away with this everywhere. [/quote]

[u]The judge[/u] decided the sentencing, not the CA.  :roll: [/quote]
The CA decided to try to him as minor.  That was her decision alone.[/quote]

Good. Either you're a minor or you're not, and I think people should be tried as minors until they have reached the voting age. You want to lower the age at which someone can be tried as an adult? Fine, lower the voting age.

And again, for the people who don't seem to get it: the CA asked for a longer sentence than the judge gave.

The Meade family is suffering now and will be suffering for years to come. You don't have to deny that to think that they shouldn't be the ones determining the punishment.

There was a great episode of the You're Wrong About poscast recently titled "What even is justice?" which makes the point that our desire for vengeance is linked to our inability to acknowledge and validate grief. [/quote]

Exactly.  I was sympathetic for the Meade family until becoming aware of the toxic way they and their coterie of attack dogs are now behaving. They are the last people I’d want making sentencing decisions.  [/quote]

I'm still sympathetic to them -- their wound is so fresh, of course they're lashing out. But there was zero chance that a rich guy from McLean, minor or adult, was going to pay any significant penalty for what he did. That's the system.[/quote]

There are other scoundrels in McLean (and Arlington, too) who’ve received long prison sentences for their crimes in recent years.  But this is a juvenile and the system recognizes they are not adults.  But now we have a bunch of adults apparently being encouraged by the Meade family to act like toddlers or at best tweens when it comes to recognizing how the judicial system treats juvenile offenders.  [/quote]

I don’t think it’s “acting like toddlers” for people to expect something more than a slap on the wrist in this case. I almost think the system did the driver a disservice by leaving the public with the opinion that he wasn’t punished adequately by the law.  Now you get the community outrage.  I don’t wish any ill towards the young man - I sincerely hope he can embrace a positive change and learn from this.  But I can also be outraged that the killing of a boy from our community didn’t result in any real criminal consequences. [/quote]

He does have consequences - within the sentencing guidelines.

Bring it up with the sentencing commission if you don’t like the guidelines. Stop hinting that someone might harm this kid. 
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Are you out of your mind?  I didn’t “hint” anything of the sort.  I’m saying community outrage, in the form of harsh criticism on sites like DCUM, wouldn’t be happening if the community was persuaded the justice system did its job.  The victim’s family challenged a prosecutor’s decision in a way that is entirely appropriate and let the rest of us know how things turned out.  We don’t all have to keep our views quiet and move on without comment simply because a sentencing guideline was followed.[/quote]

Ok. It just makes you look irrational. 
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