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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the driver’s family has a crisis management / PR attorney helping them navigate this. If so, I can only assume they would tell the family and the family’s friends not to post disparaging accusatory things about the victim’s family’s response to the nearly non-existent criminal consequence imposed on the drunk driver. It increases outrage and reinforces the optics that the victim’s family’s interests were not taken into adequate consideration. Defending the prosecutor has the same effect, even if it’s motivated by a desire to show that the prosecutor’s decision was in line with what other prosecutors would have done. For purposes of persuading the posters here - that’s never going to be a winning argument. This is a website heavily populated by local parents, and can I tell you what every parent’s worst nightmare is? Having their child killed by a drunk driver and the driver all but getting away with it. Probably best to let the victim’s family freely air their grievances even if you think you have some great counter argument about rational decisions and juvenile Justice etc.[/quote]

Huh? The Meades made the choice to speak out publicly about it. Other people in the community, some who aren’t overcome by emotion, are certainly able to voice their opinions too. 
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Of course they are.  Just don’t be surprised when it’s considered callous and insensitive to come out yapping about rational legal decision making etc. when, on the other side of the table, there is a grieving family whose child was killed by a drunk driver. It’s very hard not to deeply sympathize with the family, and any internet bickering saying they (and the community)  should just accept the status quo and move on is a bad look.  Even if you’ve got some great argument about justice reform and frontal lobe development or what have you. It fuels the outrage. There is no winning this argument even if you’re right. [/quote]

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