I witnessed this in a case. Young driver wasn’t paying attention and crossed the line, struck head on and killed an elderly woman on her way to chemotherapy, no joke.
On the recommendation and impassioned pleas of the victim’s family, the defendant plead a manslaughter charge down to a $75 fine for failure to maintain lane or some such infraction. I don’t remember all the facts but was struck by the forward thinking and empathy. The young driver was truly remorseful, part of the pleas were that he had suffered enough, that the memory of what he had done was punishment enough.
Chill out and stop jumping on people for something they never said.
All they commented was that it wasn’t the same situation. That’s a pretty normal thing to do when someone says “oh yeah I remember that happening in this one instance”. They didn’t go after the person or bite their head off or even express aggression.
Ironically, you’re the one jumping on someone for what they didn’t say and perceived aggression that isn’t there.
killed an elderly woman on her way to chemotherapy
If this was her situation then her family had no doubt already begun the process of coming to grips with the loss of her. That probably helped them move past their grief and ask if punishing that young man was really going to help anything. I can imagine this playing out very differently if a young person with their whole life ahead of them had been killed.
I’ve heard of judges including in a sentence terms such as, every year on the victim’s birthday, the defendant has to send a dollar to the victims family, just to make sure the defendant doesn’t forget, perhaps remembers to live their life for two people.
I witnessed this in a case. Young driver wasn’t paying attention and crossed the line, struck head on and killed an elderly woman on her way to chemotherapy, no joke.
On the recommendation and impassioned pleas of the victim’s family, the defendant plead a manslaughter charge down to a $75 fine for failure to maintain lane or some such infraction. I don’t remember all the facts but was struck by the forward thinking and empathy. The young driver was truly remorseful, part of the pleas were that he had suffered enough, that the memory of what he had done was punishment enough.
Definitely not the same situation at all. This wasn’t some distracted driver, she had literally threatened to do exactly this before.
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All they commented was that it wasn’t the same situation. That’s a pretty normal thing to do when someone says “oh yeah I remember that happening in this one instance”. They didn’t go after the person or bite their head off or even express aggression.
Ironically, you’re the one jumping on someone for what they didn’t say and perceived aggression that isn’t there.
I was reacting specifically to the corded portion of the article above, in which one of the victims survivors asked for leniency.
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Isn’t it equally obvious that there would be a situation where parents of a dead child would want leniency for the accused?
Sounds like that was an accident, not homicide. That isn’t the same thing.
Did you read the grandparent comment?
I was reacting to the specific quote above.
That’s a nice story, in a way, but not even remotely close to this case.
It’s a direct response to another comment, not to the article.
If this was her situation then her family had no doubt already begun the process of coming to grips with the loss of her. That probably helped them move past their grief and ask if punishing that young man was really going to help anything. I can imagine this playing out very differently if a young person with their whole life ahead of them had been killed.
Certainly.
I’ve heard of judges including in a sentence terms such as, every year on the victim’s birthday, the defendant has to send a dollar to the victims family, just to make sure the defendant doesn’t forget, perhaps remembers to live their life for two people.
What the fuck are you on about?