which ruined a young neurosurgeon's career and health. The damage he sustained was horrific, disabling him and causing a lifetime of pain. He wanted the man charged, but the prosecutor cited the driver's career and that if he got a felony record he might lose his job and it would interfere with his ability to pay. Libertarian justice at work...
A recent story from the Left Coast:
Tearful driver sentenced in fatal Kirkland DUI crash
By Christine Clarridge - November 23, 2013
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022315896_duisentencingxml.html
The comments on her are as cuttting as they are revealing and may give context to the next version with a video here, which also has harsh words:
Tearful Kirkland driver sentenced in fatal DUI
By Deborah Horne - November 22, 2013
...Hudson pleaded guilty in September to getting behind the wheel of her van, drunk and on prescription drugs, then slamming into a car with four people inside in August 2012. Eighty-one-year-old Joyce Parsons of Kirkland died at the scene. Her brother Arthur Kamm, also of Kirkland, suffered 82 fractures; their cousins were badly hurt, too. Hudson asked the judge for lenience.
"The fact is, this could have easily been a mass homicide," said Bradshaw. With that, he sentenced her to 130 months in prison, near the top of the sentencing range.
Afterwards, we asked Arthur Kamm's son, Tom, if he believed Hudson's apology was sincere. "No, I don't think that," he said.
Neither did his cousin Keith Parsons, the son of the woman she killed. "I think she's sorry she's going to jail for almost 11 years," said Parsons...
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/tearful-kirkland-driver-sentenced-fatal-dui/nb3BF/
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