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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too harsh! Brock Got only 6 months!!![/quote]

This 43 year old Columbia Maryland man got 1 week in jail for a hit and run crash where he killed a teenage boy after downing a few drinks at an office happy hour.  I don't understand these sentencing disparities.

http://www.gazette.net/stories/041608/montnew195536_32402.shtml[/quote]

Uh, they weren’t convicted of the same crime. The man in this article was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in someone’s death. The first young man was convicted of manslaughter. There’s really no comparison. [/quote]

Nope.  Read the article.  The man in the article went to happy hour, hit the teen with the car and then fled and turned himself into the police after 3 days after getting his car repaired.

[quote]After less than a week in jail and six weeks in a work-release program, the Columbia man who killed 17-year-old Esai Lopez of Gaithersburg in a hit-and-run collision last year has been transferred to home confinement to serve the rest of his one-year sentence.
The March 28 transfer of Brian Schwartz, 43, from a county work-release program to home confinement has left the Lopez family irate with the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office for steering them toward a plea deal that could allow such an outcome.
Schwartz, who struck Lopez as he crossed Redland Road near Muncaster Mill Road with friends July 31, had been at a happy hour before the collision. He and three colleagues consumed 27 alcoholic drinks, according to police records. Schwartz did not admit to drinking, but his colleagues said the entire group was drinking, according to police records.

After hitting Lopez with his BMW, Schwartz fled the scene and replaced the car’s windshield before turning himself in to police three days later, according to police.[/quote][/quote]

You’re trying to equate them by saying the man went to a happy hour, but he wasn’t charged with drunk driving or manslaughter. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. In fact, it’s clear from the article that the police/prosecutors could not prove that alcohol was the cause of the accident or that the driver consumed any alcohol. You may make assumptions about what happened, but that’s different from legal proof. These two situations are not comparable because the convictions were for different crimes![/quote]

How is hit and run collision resulting in death not worse than manslaughter?  That man left a teenager to die as if he were roadkill.  Even worse if he were sober.[/quote]
+1 1 week in jail for killing a teen is unfathomable to me.  His lawyer must have bribed the judge.[/quote]

The judge sentenced him to a year.  He was released by the county on house arrest due to overcrowding/health problems.  The judge had nothing to do with that part of it.[/quote]

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