Wednesday, November 17, 2010

More DWI suspects face murder charges in N.C. (Let's do this right.)

More DWI suspects face murder charges in N.C. :: WRAL.com:
Raleigh, N.C. — Although most murder trials involve violent crimes, North Carolina prosecutors are increasingly filing second-degree murder charges for people suspected of drunken driving who cause fatal crashes.
My first reaction to this is: "Good." Almost immediately though, I remember that there's nothing a group of privileged, entitled, conservative pricks (the population base for judges) like better than throwing their inferiors in prison for doing things they let their cronies off with a slap on the wrist for doing.  I'm thinking again of that hit and run driver in Colorado, the one the prosecutor didn't want to inconvenience. We also know middle class white kids caught with an ounce of pot, largely, get sent home by paternalistic police officers. Don't be a black kid and try that though.

So, yes, throw the book at drunk drivers who kill. Just throw the same book at all of them with the same force.
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