5 YEARS! 5 stinking years for killing a kid and seemingly having no remorse!
Pathetic! No wonder the arabs are over-running the UK!
Hey! Don’t think we do any better!
I post this every so often when the message seems relevant, sort of as a memorial to Mom, as well as to let people know what the justice system is really like.
December 5th, 2001, my mother, Shirley Norkunas, was killed in a car wreck. She was on her way to a Dr.’s appointment. The roads and weather were clear, it was about 9 in the morning, the place was just south of Superior, WI on State Hwy 35. She was driving north toward Superior.
A fellow named Thomas Frankot was heading south that morning, driving on a suspended license. He crossed into my mother’s lane, she was killed instantly in the resulting crash.
Thomas Frankot lived. He was essentially judgement proof, no insurance and with very few assets.
He, after much wrangling, finally pled guilty in September 2002 to driving after suspension and driving left of center.
Previous relevant citations (there are half a dozen or so others)
DWI.
DWI/OAS (Operation After Suspension)
OAS
No Valid License
OAR (Operation after Revocation)
OAR
That was six offenses BEFORE he killed Mom, so you know he was really in trouble this time.
Was he ever.
He was fined $363, license suspended for six months, and given sixty days to pay.
That’s not even the funny part.
Years, much more than the sixty days lapsed. I asked the clerk of courts what happens when the fines aren’t paid.
They suspend his license.
Now, that’s justice for ya.
Oh, it might not any surprise there have been several violations since. He’s walking around to this very day.
5 years for vehicular homicide? Actually a pretty stiff sentence, especially if he wasn’t drunk (although really why that makes it a more or less serious offence I’m not sure). Many people kill others while driving out of nothing more than sheer stupidity or carelessness and receive little more than a wrist-slap for it - maybe a ticket for a moving violation and/or a short license suspension.
Well a five year sentence in the UK is like life in prison here in America. Now if he had been remorseful they would of probably sentenced him to house arrest, oh except for the nights off to go to the pub.