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Now for the "more or less." Well he's already done "less" for society by running over a physician with his car, and rendering aid to his Mercedes' mirror instead of the man. Nice. While community service and financial restitution looks nice, I think the greater service to society would be establishing a precedent for FULL PROSECUTION UNDER THE LAW for hit and run, since, despite the written word, DAs can apparently let the charges fall at their whim. Let him fry.
But you're living in a non-realistic world where people get full punishment, there's plenty of money for the prisons, and plenty of room for him to be dealt with. Assuming he "fries" he'd still spend years in prison before that. And if in this one case he did pay the full price it certainly wouldnt be death, because a jury wont convict for that because the victim is living.
I dont see the word felony making a difference to anyone other than the defendants life, and frankly we need to be more concerned about
getting it into peoples heads not to be distracted drivers.But this is not simply a case of being a distracted driver. If there was no intent to hit a cyclist, then fine, I am sure there is a Motor Vehicle Act (or whatever they call it down there) offence for driving without due care and attention / distracted driving. The Felony is for fleeing the scene of a crash. Hit and RUN. He RAN. I believe it was you who said in an earlier post that he was simply "looking out for number one". That is where the offence is. Yes, we need to get people to stop distracted driving. Miore importantly, WE NEED PEOPLE TO CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.
Another topic for the LR: How the entire financial collapse happened because people like this care more about material things than they do about real people.
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Starting from scratch...