SallyMac's Blog

I think it sounds like her boyfriend's decision to get in the car with someone that was intoxicated is being completely overlooked. We're too educated now, we know the effects alcohol has on a person's ability to drive. He knowingly got in the car with her, he knowingly risked his life. Or maybe he didn't, I don't know...

That doesn't make anyone feel better. No there isn't much justice in it. What was the question in the case? Did the actions of the truck driver play absolutely no part seeing as how she had already broken the law, and then afterward she's guilty for every subsequent consequence of breaking that law; or were underage drinking, drinking and driving, and vehicular manslaughter all treated as separate infractions? You don't get to use alcohol as a defense in court, but it also isn't an automatic assumption of guilt. If her boyfriend, if he were intoxicated, was driving would the results have been any different? Who is more responsible for his death; her for driving intoxicated, or him for getting in the car with someone that was intoxicated? Its completely different when the driver of the other vehicle is killed, because they didn't have a choice.

Is it going to ease the pain of either family by this girl suffering in addition to the suffering thats already occurred? I doubt it. Is it going to deter others from making impaired decisions in the future? Unfortunately, probably not. So then is it keeping with letter of the law making sure that without reasonable doubt the person responsible for his ill fate is being handed justice? Well, si

Well, since we don't know if him driving would have changed the circumstances at all, well, we just don't know that without a shadow of a doubt she is responsible for his death. You don't speak ill of the dead, so you don't blame him. Now you have a living person who you can either minimize the suffering of all involved, or further penalize her by adding to the guilt that will never go away, a scarlet letter "F" for Felon.

I think it is ridiculous how her father actually think politics did not play a part in her punishment. My brother was sentenced to twenty years in prison for the same crime and his intoxication level was not nearly as close as hers. She should have been sentenced to serve a minimum of five years in prison, especially since she was underage and should have not been drinking to begin with. It does not matter if it was her boyfriend’s decision to get in the vehicle with her, he is now dead and she should be held fully responsible. What is the point of making laws when anybody with power can make them their own?

I must have missed something here. The facts are she was driving the vehicle. She had an accident that killed someone. Sorry but she is responsible for the death plain and simple. There are no other options. She was driving and she is responsible !

You know if this had been a black or latino, they would be thrown under the jail for the maximum 20 years. She also has the benefit of her father being a judge. Those are the reasons she got the slap on the wrist for murder.

I was born and raised here in Houston and have never been in any other place in this country that has more corrupt politicians than here. The good ol' boy network is alive and well and functioning as the corrupt politicians expect it to !!!! It's time for people to see these things for what they really are, and to vote people in office that will really make a change and put this racist archaic mindset to rest once and for all !!!!!!!

I agree swpowell1226....you are so correct!