Originally Posted by
ptempel
Maybe just change the law to make it a felony for the truck driver case of hitting and killing someone.
Still doesn't work unless the penalties are higher; we just had a DWI-3rd-or-more (felony in Texas) picked up yesterday, except that his rap sheet shows a DWI-3rd-or-more on 2-25-17. Barely over a year, and yet he had his license back in time to do it again.
In my ideal scenario, rather than a license suspension for the previous one, (assuming that was just his third) he'd have gotten a ~10 year sentence, with probation after the first year conditional on not driving for at least five years, but then this one would revoke his probation with no possibility of release until he sits out the remainder of the initial 10 years, followed by whatever he gets for the new DUI, and permanent license revocation.