[Feline_AIDS]

Really warms your heart, no?

[Edizzl79]

If we all had fathers that were state court judges....

[Arguendo]

Surely Texas has some state equivalent of Section 11 sanctions that can be imposed in cases like this?

[wastedyears]

Shelton is the daughter of a state court judge.

And there it is. I'm surprised she was even convicted of manslaughter.

[Squantos]

Ok I say it........Who’s her daddy ?

[martin_fierro]

Video of wreckage here

[Tempest]

The Lawyer should go to prison

[Nathan Zachary]

So, her father thinks she has a case because his under insured truck acted like a magnet, causing her to drive into him, killing her boyfriend?

What a retard. Surely the court system has some way of not allowing idiots like this to waste the court and taxpayers time and money.

[Frank_2001]

The drunk slut had a BAC of THREE TIMES
the legal limit when arrested, spent 120 days in the can and paid a fine of $10, 000. Now I suppose she wants the money back. The boyfriend was partially decapitated, who in their right mind would repair that SUV? I saw a photo of the car, it looks like the Jayne Mansfield deathmobile. Gross!

[rednesss]

The truck had no insurance, thus by state law should not have been occupying that particular set of space-time coordinates when she rear-ended it. Had the truck 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.

[prophetic]

Nothing is more offensive than the courts punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.

Second to that is these idiots being allowed to file these frivolous lawsuits against peoples/companies that have nothing directly related to the incident and ignoring the fact that she was the guilty party for all of it.

It kinda like blame the tobacco companies for giving you lung cancer, suing Mc Donalds for getting scalded for mishandling a HOT CUP of COFFEE, blaming the gun mfgrs for making guns that killed people in it 'proper use'.

[Ditter]

In 1984 our son was hit and killed. the Mexican kid who hit him had a lawyer write us a letter asking us to buy him a new car because his was destroyed. And he said he was still suffering from his injuries(were we going to be moved by this?) . We instructed our lawyer to write back and say “no” to the car and to inform him our son was still dead. Fortunately we never heard from him again.

[Ptarmigan]

What a moron!

[IMTOFT]

I am the son of a former Federal judge (unfortunately he passed away in 2002) who was appointed in 1976 under Ford. My father was a great father, a really good guy. When he was appointed, I was 15. I remember him pulling my brother (then 17) and I into the kitchen for a little sit down. He explained that he loved us, but said, “If you ever get into legal trouble, I will be there as a father to support you, but don't ever expect me to use my position to get you out of any legal trouble.”

He told us that several times during my teenage years. I would meet people who would say, “Gee, your Dad's a judge, that must mean you don't have to pay speeding tickets”, to which I would respond, “Ah, no, you've never met my Dad, have you?”

To a person, all of the Federal judges I knew through my father's tenure were absolute, upstanding individuals who would never use their position to improperly influence any court decisions on the behalf of their family members. One of the judge's family suffered through a long period of their only son being arrested numerous times for misdemeanor drug possession and DUI, always supporting him emotionally (and I'm sure financially), but never giving him an easy out. He's still a drug and alcohol counselor with 20+ years of sobriety who still credits his father with being his inspiration.

I guess my point here is my father went out of his way to explain to us that we should never expect preferential treatment, and as I grew up with a bunch of judges’ families, it seemed that was absolutely the norm and never the exception in my limited experience.

[Cyman]

She is the living definition for the most vile,despicable word you can use to describe a woman. And it rhymes with runt.

[familyop]

It’s no surprise at all. I know two associate circuit judges and a police chief who wiggled out of drunk driving cases during the late-’80s and ‘90s. And there were deaths in one of those cases. Welcome to your late awakening in our organized crime Nation.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I’d hit it.

[healy61]

She should be in prison. A man is dead at her hands.

[Daaave]

"The passenger was hanging out of his seat, out of the window, waving as if he was having a good time at a parade. That's what the witness stated," said Houston Police officer S.M. Johnson.

The SUV swerved across two lanes of traffic and hit the cargo truck Lance Bennett was driving, according to police.

“It was going about 100 miles an hour and it hit me from behind,” said Bennett. "I saw them come at me at full speed and they just hit me from behind."

"They were driving crazy. If I hadn't been driving this big truck, I'd probably be gone too."

khou.com

[LibWhacker]

Another moneyed prima donna gets off with a slap on the wrist. If it had been me, I’d have been sent away for 40 years. American jurisprudence sucks. A total disgrace.

[decal]

Perhaps surprisingly, Judge Shelton is Republican.

Perhaps not surprisingly, he is a juvenile court judge.

And I found this little tidbit about the plaintiff's attorney, Mark Sandoval.

“Sandoval has been suspended twice by the State Bar for a total of four years, thrown in jail for a day for lying to a judge, kicked off a legislative ballot for lying about his residence, fined the maximum by a jury on campaign finance violations after acting as his own lawyer, and had his fees garnisheed by the IRS for several years for failure to pay his taxes.”

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4445490

Rotten apple didn't fall far from the tree, apparently.