Delaney: Legal injustice
Donte Stallworth drives drunk, kills a pedestrian and gets 24 days in jail?
What, are you kidding me? Stallworth, a wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. Vehicular manslaughter is the crime of causing the death of a human being due to illegal driving an automobile, including gross negligence, drunk driving, reckless driving or speeding, according to law.com
How does Stallworth go from a maximum penalty of 15 years to 24 days? Money. Stallworth, who will also serve eight years of probation, two years of house arrest, 1,000 hours of community service and a lifetime suspended license, got out of significant jail time because he has the money to buy his way out of trouble.
Is that justice?
What, are you kidding me? Stallworth, a wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. Vehicular manslaughter is the crime of causing the death of a human being due to illegal driving an automobile, including gross negligence, drunk driving, reckless driving or speeding, according to law.com
How does Stallworth go from a maximum penalty of 15 years to 24 days? Money. Stallworth, who will also serve eight years of probation, two years of house arrest, 1,000 hours of community service and a lifetime suspended license, got out of significant jail time because he has the money to buy his way out of trouble.
Is that justice?
posted by Anne Delaney at
3:00 PM
1 Comments:
Injustice? You have no idea. Look back about 3 to 4 years ago in Cortland. Yep, right here in NYS you will find a serious injustice. An off duty Cortland cop was driving drunk and texting ran down 2 women crossing the street. One later died, the other seriously injured. He received a sentence of 6 months in jail and I forgot how many years probation. Don't think atheletes and celebs are the only ones who get a free pass.
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