(image courtesy of Robb Allen)Brad_in_ma sent me this story. It directly contradicts something I've said about the MA "Justice" System, to whit that drunk drivers don't get serious jail time until they kill someone. Sadly, this is not a story about a second-time offender getting the book thrown at them...
Man gets 5 years for hit-and-run death in Methuen
SALEM — A Springfield man has been sentenced to five years in prison for a hit-and-run that took the life of a Methuen man walking home on Christmas Eve in 2009.
Arturo Cruz Jr. was sentenced on Thursday in Salem Superior Court after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident with death resulting and motor vehicle homicide while operating under the influence of alcohol.
Five years. Bear in mind this is Massachusetts we're talking about, where folks get out on bail for triple life sentences after ~ 15 years. If Cruz serves two full years I'd be shocked. Notice, from later in the article, that Cruz was driving on a suspended license - now, they don't say, but who wants to bet this wasn't his first OUI? Think about this. Cruz drives drunk, hits someone, kills them, and flees the scene, and is sentenced to the same amount of time I would get if I bought a 15 round magazine made after 1994.
Five years. Your gross malfeasance causes an innocent person to lose their life - *and* you flee the scene - and you get the same amount of jail time as someone who buys the wrong piece of stamped metal. Can anyone defend this policy? According to the MA General laws and the MA criminal justice system, if I were to mistakenly pick up a new Sig 15 round magazine at a shoot instead of my 17 year old magazine, I would face the same penalty as someone who drives drunk, kills someone, and leaves the scene. In what kind of bizarro world is this anything resembling justice?
MA: Leave your common sense at the border.
That is all.
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It's fifty and sunny down here today. I'll be using new Pmags in a USPSA multi-gun match tomorrow.
You only have the rights you are you are willing to claim. Flee Massachusetts, while you can.
It directly contradicts something I've said about the MA "Justice" System, to whit that drunk drivers don't get serious jail time until they kill someone.
Actually, no it doesn't. (Warning: geekspeak -- well, actually mathspeak -- ahead) What you said was "All members of set X are also members of set Y," where X = "drunk drivers who have done serious jail time" and Y is "drunk drivers who have killed someone." What this story proves is there is at least one member of Y that is not a member of X. Not the same thing.
Now, if Brad had sent you a story about some jerk getting serious jail time on his first DUI, why then your statement would be disproved, because it would be an X that was not also a Y. But as it is, your statement is still true.
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