Drunk driver who killed Malik Sealy gets another DUI

[VF21]

Sorry, nebs. I didn't mean to come off so hard-azz. This is a very sensitive subject for me. I don't mean to take it out on anyone else just for expressing their opinions.

 

[Gargamel]

Somehow I think that the lawyers who defend drunk drivers in court are behind all this getting off easy crap.

It's the way our system is set up. It's hard to charge someone with 1st degree murder when they can argue that they weren't acting with clear intent or premeditation. They weren't setting out to kill someone and they can argue that they were inebriated at the time they decided to drive home. One thing they can do is ramp up the penalty for being caught driving over the legal limit -- say 3 or more months in prison the first time you're caught. Mandatory. That'll make Avg Joes and Janes think twice before going out to a bar w/o a designated driver.

 

[Prophetess]

and now we have a coach who is guilty? of this....






SIGH

 

[LilMissDiva]

Even I would have to agree that just getting a DUI shouldn't result in attempted murder charges. I know someone that got a very ticky-tack DUI.

Unless the murder charges only result in DUI's over a certain level. Blow a .09 and you attempted murder? No. You know what I mean?

However, someone like the man in the Malik Sealy case, should fall into that category. IMHO.

Why not? My family member lost her life to about that amount of DUI (at nine years old). Of course it didn't seem that big of a deal so the person wasn't charged with much... !!!!!

 

[VF21]

and now we have a coach who is guilty? of this....






SIGH

In all fairness, we have a coach who has been charged with DUI. He hasn't been found guilty quite yet.

This is where the car restriction thing I was talking about would have come in really handy.

 

[Prophetess]

In all fairness, we have a coach who has been charged with DUI. He hasn't been found guilty quite yet.

This is where the car restriction thing I was talking about would have come in really handy.

which is why the ? was there.

It's just something that I, like you, feel very strongly about. I have never been guilty of drinking and driving, I will always call someone. When I had parties in my younger days, everyone who was drinking had to turn over their keys to me and did not get them back if they were unable to drive. And now days, I will always volunteer to be the designated driver so no one who is with me will drive while intoxicated.

I believe it was an honest mistake on coaches part, but it is one that can be prevented.

 

[VF21]

In this case, I think the mistake is one Eric Musselman will never repeat. I think he'll learn from it. I have been guilty of drinking and driving because, for the most part, it was looked at as "no big deal." (This was over 25 years ago...) I look back now and thank everything I believe in that I didn't kill myself or kill or maim innocent bystanders. I think, having done the very thing I feel so strongly about now, I can understand how a person can make an error in judgment.

I think KMG23 said it best in one of the threads when she said: "Once is a mistake. Twice is a pattern."

There are lessons to be learned here that I hope actually benefit someone in the long run.

And, in the long run, maybe high-profile incidents like this will make it more obvious that we need to make better use of existing technology. If you keep the impaired driver from being able to start or drive his/her car, you put an immediate stop to DUI-fatality accidents.