Infuriating

[channlluv]

Feh.

+1 -- I've been thinking this exact same thing. And also that this uber-wealthy money guy and his uber-wealthy-protectionist DA sound like Fat Cat Republicans to me, but I wasn't going to say so out loud. Ha! I really don't see what a judge, liberal or otherwise, has to do with what charges a DA brings. And it's not like it's a class thing because the victim here is a surgeon and while he may not earn as much as uber-wealthy money guy, I imagine he's pretty comfortable. (And I'm a registered Independent, fwiw.)

Except for the lifetime of pain he's going to endure because of this accident.

I DO understand the desire for $$$ restitution on that point, and if uber-wealthy money guy is going to pay up big, he's going to need to work, so maybe all of that really did figure into the plea bargaining and the victim's lawyer was okay with it, in spite of the moral outrage. He gets paid more to, then, doesn't he?

In the end, it's really all about the money.


Roxy

[bmccasland]

Yeah but the victim isn't exactly in the "poverty" economic class either - which is making this class talk rather interesting. The Doc could have been one of the Financial Manager's clients.

It's still sad that for a really lame reason a person was thus far allowed to get away with seriously injuring another. If he had beat him to a pulp with his fists, he'd be in jail. Or maybe his lawyer would be trying to get him off for some dumb reason.

It still amazes me that you can hit someone with a car, seriously injuring them, leave the scene of the accident and get away with it as if all you did was smack them on the butt as you walked by.

[channlluv]

I'm trying to see this from the driver's POV. If he really was asleep at the wheel, and as someone with sleep apnea, I can relate to the extreme fatigue (I've actually dozed off at red lights - nuts, I know), but if he really did fall asleep, he may have hit the cyclist and not noticed. The report I read said he also hit an embankment or wall or something. If it was right after hitting the doctor, he may not have noticed the impact with the bicycle, or he may have assumed it was from the impact with the embankment. IF the the larger impact woke him up, then I think it's plausible that he really didn't know that he'd hit a person.

Still, wouldn't that still make him guilty of gross vehicular recklessness resulting in bodily injury or something?

Roxy