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Originally Posted by highthief
You know what - people with high profiles sometimes get off (hello, OJ) and sometimes they get made an example of. Personally, I'm glad when an example is made of someone.
Just the other day, in the community I live in, Rob Ramage, former Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL team, was sentenced to 4 years in jail for his drunk-driving escapade that ended up killing a friend of his.
Ramage isn't black, he isn't a woman, but he got a pretty stiff sentence - and believe you me, in this hockey-crazed area, everyone is having second thoughts about getting behind the wheel after having a few if the courts are willing to put an NHL star away for so long.
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Not to totally threadjack, but four years is a "stiff sentence" for killing someone, even involuntarily?? I was actually out a few weeks ago and a friend of a friend who had dome something similar (killed two friends in a drunk accident) and also done something like for or six years, and I found myself very pissed off that he was out drinking again and generally being an ass when his two friends were in the ground. It just seemed disrespectful. But back to my threadjack, I think that unless it is self defense or some really extenuating circumstances, four years for killing someone is kind of light. Probably seems that way to the victim's family, who will never see their son again...