Originally Posted by
HardyWeinberg
Well if she *intentionally* ran over him that would be murder. What she did was on par w/ aggravated DUI and whatever collateral damage flows from that. Whoever prescribed her all that crap should have been warning her to stay off the road.
Since she didn't have a license, the doc probably considered it irrelevant.
Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
That's what would have happened if you had been on trial for all of this. But the defendant in this case was able to garner a bit of sympathy. It's a lot harder to lock somebody away for life because they wanted to leave the house on their birthday after suffering a "bowel disease" for 30 years ... right or wrong.
I guess I would tend to look a little deeper; if she doesn't have a friend that can drive her around for her birthday, what kind of annoying twit must she be, and why would she then deserve sympathy?