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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, this is upsetting. I feel awful for Braylon’s family, can you even imagine someone getting 1 year of jail time for recklessly killing your child? DUI sentencing is such a joke in this country, but this is just beyond insulting to Arlington citizens. And I’m guessing charging as a minor will keep his name from being released. Dollars to donuts the perpetrator goes on to commit some other crime, he already had a history of drug use and 94 mph is insanely egregious. You have to be a sociopath to drive like that. I just can’t find myself hoping for his rehabilitation when he doesn’t even have actual significant consequences to deal with. [/quote]

I don’t think people should get severe sentences and especially not the sentence I would want in the throes of grief for my child. That’s not the kind of society I think we should have. [/quote]

Ok but sentencing should also be about more than simply trying to rehabilitate the criminal. There needs to be a deterrent effect (is it really a good thing for teens to know they can drive blazed out of their minds at 95 mph near a residential low speed area, kill someone, and receive a slap on the wrist and their name sheltered from the media so they can resume their normal lives in 1 year time)? There is also the sense of justice the public expects from those elected to enforce our laws when crimes are committed. Clearly a lot of people in this community who are the constituents of the Commonwealth’s Attorney do not feel justice has been served. There’s also public safety. I think keeping someone like this off the streets for a significant period of time would be in the interest of not getting other children killed. Because for all the prosecutor’s focus on the “child” defendant, there is little concern for the fact a child of our own county was violently killed by essentially a giant speeding missile. I would like to keep this person from killing other people’s children (and adults).

And yes to some extent I think the victim’s family deserve some sort of sense of the victim experiencing adequate consequences for their crime. One year for taking a life [b]in a willful manner (which is what driving drunk at 95 mph is)[/b] is an absolute joke of a sentence. [/quote]

It’s many things, but not “willful”.   :roll: [/quote]

Oh I’m sorry you’re right. Getting drunk and behind the wheel of a car is like being struck by lightning. Just a total random occurrence that involves no willful activity at all, and the consequences of which are not at all foreseeable. Nothing to see here. The poor driver just had no control over it. Nothing willful involved here.

My god, you people who excuse drunk drivers as not being engaged in a willful crime that can very foreseeably cause death are just ignorant. But lemme guess, you identify with the crime a little too much because you enjoy having a couple glasses of wine and driving home from dinner. It’s harmless because you’ve made it home safely before so if you did crash into someone and kill them it certainly wouldn’t be a willful crime! [/quote]

He didn’t “willfully” take a life.

I don’t drink, but I do know how to use words properly. 
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Okay fine. He “willfully” did something that had a very high probability of killing someone (and likely wasn’t his first time driving drunk based on what we know about past history). So we can at least agree this person knew there was a good chance of killing someone and was ok with that.[/quote]

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