Posted on 01/21/2009 8:45:04 PM PST by Feline_AIDS
The woman in that case was an idiot and didn’t deserve a dime.
A jury Monday sentenced the daughter of a Harris County judge to eight years probation and fined her $10,000 for the intoxication manslaughter death of her 19-year-old boyfriend.By law, 20-year-old Elizabeth Shelter must serve 120 days in jail before her probation begins.
If she fails to meet the terms of the probation, she will be sent to prison for five years.
Man, that’s four months out of the social circuit! And you don’t think it’s enough?
I’m kind of surprised it was a jury sentence. She probably presented as the very picture of innocence, cried a lot, and otherwise engendered sympathy. No doubt she was very well coached. I wonder if the boyfriend’s family can sue civilly? Just may not be worth it to them.
I followed some of the links. The boyfriend’s family is being represented by the same lawyer as Shelton, along with her mother who wasn’t even present, in suing the truck driver.
nice small, tight legal circle, eh ?
Can’t believe the lawyer doesn’t have a conflict of interest. Around here layers have to be sure there is not even the possibility of conflict before taking on a client.
The CAR DIDN'T HAVE A LEGAL DRIVER, thus by state law should not have been occupying that particular set of space-time coordinates when she rear-ended the truck. Had the CAR DRIVER been obeying the law, then this particular accident would have never happened. That’s not to say that she might not have gotten into a different accident, just not this one.
There, that makes more sense.
Thanks. That does tie it together in a neat little package. Disgusting!
Nah.
Mustaffa-Steinberg... lol!
Disgusting and disturbing. It is one thing to see such corrupt attitudes institutionalized in a small town or county. But it now seems to be the accepted practice from the WH on down.
There was a thread on this case about a month ago. If I remember correctly, it was the company the driver worked for which failed to keep the insurance up to date—I don’t know if he even realized that his employer was dropping the ball.
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