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bizikletari

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 223

Manslaughter vs Drugs

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/dru … 22317.html

It seems that there is a pattern for giving probation sentences for intoxicated drivers who kill people in Austin.

To be honest, I have always been appalled by the excessive punishment culture under the American legal system; but in these cases my surprise is quite different. They basically go free for killing people.

I do not understand neither the logic nor the ethics of the decision on the Ceballos case: the woman goes to jail for drugs posession and —technically— on probation for manslaughter?

Donald Lewis

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Registered: 2009-07-11

Posts: 184

Re: Manslaughter vs Drugs

It is screwed up, but in any case there were consequences.  The reality is, just as she didn't relinquish the keys for having had a few drinks, you know she wouldn't relinquish her keys for doing Xanax either, so good that there were consequences for prescription fraud.  But you are right, of course, it is bass-ackwards.

Don in Austin