Originally Posted by
TenSpeedV2
I just don't see how a 10 day sentence is acceptable by any standards. It is more on pace with a sentence you would receive if you were caught DUI, not if you had killed someone while DUI. People do more time in jail for uttering bad checks than DUI manslaughter. Makes no damn sense.
This is exactly what he plead to and was sentenced for. There was no plea or conviction relating to causing a death.
Here's a link to info relating to
"aggravated DUI" in Illinois.
As to why the prosecutor accepted the lower plea to the lessor charge, who knows. Bad case/evidence, rights technicality, etc, influence, out lawyered, etc.
So, like so many cases, the sentence range was defined by the prosecutor and his unwillingness (or inability) to pursue a conviction for the more serious charge.