hit and run - a life is lost
When our self preservation outweighs our guilt, we cover up the wrongful things we do. Would you do differently?I am a very forgiving person but when a life is lost and you lie in the hope of setting you unaccountable, it is just plain wrong.
A convicted killer is released after 2.5 years. Why? She's rich and manipulated facts to suit her needs.
Scenario: A poor motorist ran out of gas, while filling on the side of the road at night, with his blinkers on, was hit and killed by a drunk rich woman. Two witnesses saw the accident and came forward. Amy Senser, the woman who was driving a Mercedes SUV, fled the scene and never reported the accident. Deleted all her text messages after that. First lied that she wasn't the driver, eventually accepted it and declared she thought she hit a cone or an animal?
You be the judge. What makes me sick is how the rich can pay their way out of a crime and meted a light sentence.
(Please read all articles regarding the case on Google)
Question: Is there a lesson we can draw from this?
Of course, DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE is one. Second, if you do, you have to be rich to buy your freedom.
Thanks all for your reads and comments.
Comments (37)
First of all if I were that poor dead motorist I wouldnt care too much about what happens to the woman, whether she's sentenced for life or let go for money, my last thought would be of whom I love and care, of what I did right and regret of what I did wrong.
As to the woman she might have family, children, who risk to be go to foster care in case if she's in jail, because you know men are not too reliable to leave your kids with.... There may be so many sides you would never know of, it's better off judging...
For the dead man, well I am more for the family who lost a bread winner. But thanks for your comments.
IF it does happen many reasons can be found
ie Peers pressure or whatever pressure, ie overtired with work
ie WHATEVER problem
Something or somebody driving you mad in short
People in general don't choose to become occasional drink drivers
AND they certainly don't choose to kill or damage themselves and someone else
NOBODY for sure is proud to undergo this fiasco
YES it is expensive to get back the licence
AND I think it is for the best
AS it is a caution towards safety
WHAT IS MONEY COMPARE TO DEATH????????????????
Hit and run WELL maybe they panic or maybe they don't realise the problem being under the influence of alcohol
NEVER would I allow myself to be a judge.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT can happen to anyone rich or poor,,,,,,,,,,
NOW that is a funny declaration about independence
I think it was last year, a similar story to yours. A rich kid, around 19 years old, driving while drunk and on drugs. Like your story, a person broke down along the road and a couple of peopled stopped to help out. The drunk kid ended up killing multiple people along the road by smashing into one of the parked cars.
The court found the kid from the rich family guilty of "affluenza." lol He was not guilty because he grew up in a family that was too wealthy. The father told the court that he would put his kid in rehabilitation. They showed on tv the rehabilitation center the kid went to and it looked like some sort of fancy resort.
The laws should reflect on everybody equally. However, it is impossible to write laws that have distinctive meaning to any and all situations that may occur in life. That is why good lawyers make so much money, they are good at finding those gray areas in the law.
AND
IT SEEMS that I answered the blog hastily
and the result is .............. I AM OUT OF CONTEXT
ooooooooooooooops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice to see you and the picture, just gorgeous.
Almost every day you can read in the newspaper or online about something similar to this. It is a tragety! I think the courts are way to soft. As you say, if you have money, you can get away with "murder".
1) Driving without due care.
2) Leaving the scene of an accident.
3) DUI (equivalent of refusing a breath test).
4) Tampering with evidence (deleting texts).
5) Manslaughter 1.
After paying her dues on the first 4 rulings E.G. Fines, suspension of license etc I would then make this decision as to her sentence on the Man. 1 charge.
If she has children who still need their Mother I would leave her in the community but she must do weekend detention, enter into an AA program and pay a weekly, tax-free amount to the family who lost their Father/Partner equivalent to the amount that he was already earning plus 10%
The pay-out amount should also be increased in accordance with normal wage increase.
Sending her to jail is costing the community and doing nothing in return for the family of the deceased.
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I thought our lady of justice was blind folded for a reason...all too often a good lawyer will get the rich out of predicaments most people cannot due to lack of money...this says a lot for our justice system...sadly...
The chances are that she would have lost her license for up to 3 years so she would have to travel by cab or public transport to pay the weekly amounts to the widow.
The only way out of this arrangement is to top herself (justice done) or if the widow dies, if the later happens she still must pay until the widow's children have all turned 18.
Weekend detention would be up to 25 years.
For someone who is unemployed and or not rich, they would have to work for the county by a court order and then hand over most of their pay to the widow.
To stay out of jail most would abide by these rules.
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Also jails must be reformed. Different jails should be used for different crimes. Murderers should not be incarcerated with thieves etc.
There should be no TV’s or other electronic devices allowed in any cells, jails are not meant to be holiday resorts, all inmates must do community work such as digging ditches, mining, production etc and the money that they earn should be paid to their victims and not kept for themselves to buy sweets and smokes. If they wish to have such privileges it should be paid for by someone else in their own family or by friends
No country can ever progress well by incarcerating their productive citizens. People should be given the choice to remain a productive citizen wherever possible.
We must look at three different angle here. First she is a very rich person who never exercise compassion. She lied and had it not been for the witnesses, she wouldn't have even ever come out. Had a very manipulating lawyer to make the case so twisted up. Now on the second view, she was only to pay $6,000.00 to the poor breadwinner of a family.
Now the last, wouldn't make it so easy for the public to think that it is not a ser
Lawyers etc should only be brought into court in the event of an appeal to show due cause why a sentence should be quashed or reduced.
In this day and age forensic evidence can tell the truth better than anyone else.
The only thing that lawyers do is muddy the truth throughout the trial IMO....
The media should also be kept out of preceedings until the final sentence has been handed down because all they manage to do is confuse public opinion.
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Plain and simple.
Regardless of how rich someone is, it always hurts to have to hand out money for one's own stupidity....
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But 2.5 years for killing someone completely blameless and then lying through your teeth about it? That's sick. She should get at least 10 years and the initial judge should be made to serve 2.5 years.