Mostly because he is poor and cannot afford a powerful attorney that can get even OJ Simpson off the hook. It is expensive to be poor and it is our legal system where nothing is equal. There are lots of these injustice everywhere (not that I think he deserves to not get anything at all, but 110 years is ridiculous compare to even war crime or hate crime getting less, for a big accident without DUI). I would give maybe up to 5 years max using my own standard.
No " justice" system since the dawn of man has ever, ever, ever, ever been ..... Totally fair and even or without "injustice"...
I agree that 110 yrs is way, way, way too much....
But... 5 yrs.... Nah.... That's ridiculously low the other way in my opinion...
Why I say that ??
A young lady in my home county was at the wheel of a SUV going 80 mph and wrecked... Killed 4 young guys in that vehicle with her.
4.... People dead because I'm of her crazy driving... She was not charged for a couple of years. Which surprised me a bit... Eventually charges were brought forward several years later.
In her case I think the Commonwealth attorney over charged her to a degree.
1 reason I say that is that those guys all knew she was a reckless and crazy driver...
2... I question whether or not those guys were wearing seatbelts... There's a reason why I am saying that.
3... Those guys had been drinking and she was albeit a terrible choice.... She was the designated driver...
4.... If she had hit another vehicle and killed 4 people who had NOT chosen voluntarily to get into a vehicle with her driving... Then I would have wanted the proverbial " book" thrown at her. In this circumstance... Because of the above mitigating circumstances... I believe she should not have been gone after extremely harshly.
Having said that... I believe she deserved 10-12 years behind bars.... No time suspended.
There's 4 dead young guys that will never come home again to their mother's home... Or see their fathers again.
4 dead young men who will never get married...
4 dead young men who will never have children to make their own parents grandparents...
There needs to be a penalty for recklessly driving and killing 4 people.
And 5 years is in my opinion grossly insufficient...
I was in school with that young lady and I heard her talking about that horrible accident. And she was shockingly flippant about what had happened vthat night on TC Walker Rd..... I thought about it later and figured maybe that's the only way she could deal with what she had done. Maybe???
Obviously excluding military service people... Talking about regular everyday citizens... How many people are walking free and they were directly responsible for 4 people being killed???
Yeah.... Bet that number is extremely extremely low.