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[justgetbackup]

It's Friday.

The huge snow storm is over. South of us got hit bad, and across the border in WI got it. About a foot, I hear. It seems we had a force field around us. I didn't see one flake.

Shane got $1 raise at his 90 day review when he'd been led to expect nothing.

And the kicker - mollies killer got found guilty of 3 out of the 4 counts he was

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[deepseasiren]

That would be vehicular manslaughter if he killed Molly but I'm surprised if he WAS drunk that they didn't add that to the list of charges. Did you find out he had been drunk and what his blood alcohol level was?

Unfortunately, murdering someone ( and driving off fucked up or drunk...you KNOW when you get in that car there's a possibility you could kill someone and or yourself, although the driver usually doesn't die) when fucked up or high in a car probably gets maybe 3-6 years tops. There was someone I spent time with who had FIVE DUI convictions ( in our state, three will send you to prison automatically and I think it's a good idea!!) and she ran into someone and killed them, and she got 3 years. Three years for taking the entire life of another human being.

This is one area I definitely have little mercy for because it's like, well, get a goddam designated driver or take the booze bus!

[justgetbackup]

Yes, he was found guilty of three charges of vehicular manslaughter - I can't recall what they all are, I know leaving the scene was one, and I think negligence was another. However, since they didn't find him until the next day, so they don't have proof of his BAC at the time of the accident. I figured there was enough circumstantial evidence - phone call recordings to his friends that night about how he's "never drinking again," the testimony of a bouncer at a bar he was at earlier in the day (and got fired for testifying), the fact he had three other DUI's in less than a year before hitting Mollie... but I guess not

[deepseasiren]

Oh shit he left the scene??? What a coward! Owing up to it at least would show he was taking some responsibility!!

I had an ex-boyfriend who had a son killed by a guy who was driving 120 miles an hour, high on meth, and had been convicted of SIX DUIs involving meth and alcohol. In Nevada that would ( six DUIs) would get you 10 years in prison, period. He got a 20 year sentence for the vehicular manslaughter of my ex's son though. Still, I know when they say '20 years' usually they serve half the time, unless the family continues to show up for parole hearings to state they don't want that person out of prison.

I'm really sorry about your friend Mollie...* HUGS *

Speaking of also my uncle was killed by a drunk driver. So yeah I do have experience with that shit. And I do not have much mercy at all for someone who gets behind the wheel and drives off fucked up.

[justgetbackup]

I'm really unfamiliar with the dui laws and stuff around here, I'm just really hoping he gets as much time as possible.

Sadly, I never knew mollie. Shane was very close to her, and her family. I love her parents and see them often, but usually when I'd go there, mollie was in Iraq or Afghanistan so I never got the chance to meet her.