Jiggers
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Now if it was you or me who killed someone, we would be in jail for a minimal 5 years. Our justice system stinks at times. I love football but this takes the cake. I had to get it off my chest. On the other side, I'd like that attorney's number man is he good.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9699510/NFL-suspends-Stallworth-indefinitely-without-pay
pigeonmom
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Seems like if you have $$$$ you can get away with most anything.
BTW- Jiggers, who is the dude on your avatar?
Ah but it was not the lawyers that got him such a sweet deal. ?The was a report on this on NPR today. He paid the victims family, and the family asked for a low sentence. So, it is not the attorney that you can afford, but the just the size of the check in general that you can right. Attorneys help though, look at OJ.
Jiggers
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My avatar is known as the child catcher from the movie classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
pigeonmom
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Thanks Jiggers, I knew I'd seen him before.
"There are children here somewhere. I can smell them."
Not defending the guy, so don’t jump all over me, but he got more than 30 days. He also gets 2 year house sentence, 1,000 hours of community service and loses his Drivers License for life. The penalty seems light, but the guy he hit was J walking in the middle of the street and Stallworth pulled over, called 911 stayed around and did the right thing. It’s a tragedy, and he was drinking and driving, but he also was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If he wasn’t drinking, he may not even be at fault since the guy was J walking.
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I rarely use crosswalks myself because you tend to let your guard down a little while you cross. You never can let your guard down crossing a street legally or illegally. But driving drunk and killing someone is never right. The penalty is light. Community service is a joke. It could mean anything even just taking out someone elses garbage. It should be hard labor for a thousand hours. 2 year house sentence please. He'll be free of the whole thing in 4 years and still find a way to play football again and reinstate his license. Watch.
How many days did cell phone talking Mr. Schwarz get for killing Matthew "Tatsu" Nakata in a marked crosswalk?
So how does he play his away games? This is really gonna mess with my fantasy league. I just hope he never goes out in public to the feedback or such.
Drinking and driving is an American pastime.
You may not do it, and your neighbor may not do it, but having a few drinks and going home drunk is a norm in this country. And the penalties are lenient. CUZ... it might be the judge next time, the lawyer, the politician, you or i that might take that extra drink.
What Stallworth showed was contrition that you might not see in alot of people in similar circumstances. That had a play in his sentence.
While not condoning his actions, how many times have we been to a bar where we have seen someone have to many to drink, yet we do nothing to ensure that he/she isn't driving. Most likely, NOTHING.
Earlier in a thread, we have someone disgusted that MKL was at a bar with her SO, yet nothing was mentioned of the drunks leaving at midnight putting their keys into their cars.
We accept drunk driving because it is part of our fabric. Stallworth was in a horrible accident, and he faced up to his failures. He did not run, he did not hide... he accepted what wrong he did,and so has the victims family. He was giving a sentence within the guidelines. Would you feel better if he denied his wrong doing and given max sentence??
Is this about what makes you feel better, or what is right for the victims?
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