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This is starting to get a little bothersome. Charging DUI/DWI suspects with MURDER.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 25105806:MV83Njg2NzhfMzM3ODA0MzRfNTgzQjJCRDc=] [quote:Anonymous Coward 605167:MV83Njg2NzhfMTE4MTU3NTlfNkNCNDc4Nzc=] They aren't just [i]charging[/i] people either... [b]Appeals court upholds Bakersfield DUI murder sentence[/b] The [b]murder conviction[/b] and [b]life prison term[/b] for a four-times convicted drunken driver has been affirmed by an appeals court. Esteban Demecio Hernandez, 42, had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit on March 17, 2007 when the car he was driving crossed the centerline on Comanche Drive north of Arvin and struck a car driven by Reynalda Bazaldua, 40. Bazaldua died of her injuries. Her two daughters, then 12 and 5 and also in the car, also were injured. Hernandez was [b]convicted of second-degree murder[/b] and driving on a suspended or revoked license. When Judge Kenneth C. Twisselman heard Hernandez had three prior DUI convictions and was on probation for DUI, he ordered consecutive sentences: 15-years-to-life plus four years. On appeal, Hernandez claimed his Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury was violated when the judge ordered the consecutive sentences. He contended he was entitled to a jury trial on the issue of sentence. But the 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno dismissed that argument in a one-paragraph discussion. The three justices noted the California Supreme Court had long ago ruled there was no right to trial by jury on such questions, and that the United States Supreme Court made the same ruling three months ago. The case is Peo. v. Hernandez, F055155. [/quote] [/quote]
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The Cops in L.A. are charging the driver of the car that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others with three counts of MURDER.
Now I'm all for locking the guy up but they are starting to charge people with shit they didn't do because they don't like the maximum sentence of the charge that he actually DID do.
That's getting a little scary now isn't it?
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