Janklow found guilty!
FLANDREAU, S.D. — Rep. Bill Janklow is facing a possible jail term and the end of his political career after a jury on Monday convicted the congressman of all charges in the traffic death of a motorcyclist.
A fixture in South Dakota politics for 30 years, Janklow seemed stunned when the verdict was read after a five-hour deliberation. He left the courtroom, got in a vehicle driven by his son and left the courthouse without uttering a word to a horde of reporters.
OK! He fucked up. Will they do anything about it?
Janklow could get up to 10 years in prison on the manslaughter charge at his sentencing on Jan. 20. The House ethics committee will investigate and could recommend a resolution reprimanding Janklow, censuring him or even expelling him, though expulsion is rare.
If you think back to all of the other like events in our past - Teddy Kennedy's fiasco while driving drunk and killing the girl at Chappaquiddick.
During the month of June in 1969, Edward Kennedy was involved in a horrible car accident. He had been driving back from a party on Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, and had driven off the edge of a bridge. Luckily, he was not severely injured; however, Mary Jo Kopechne, a woman who was in his car, was killed. She was a 29-year-old blond secretary in Washington D.C., who worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator George Smanthers. Edward Kennedy's wife was home with their children and had not attended the party.
The accident was not reported until eight hours after the car had sunk to the bottom of the river. On the following Monday, Kennedy was charged for leaving the scene of the accident. In Massachusetts, a manslaughter charge is always given when someone leaves the scene of a deadly accident. This was the second time that Kennedy had been in a fatal accident; five years earlier he had been in a serious plane crash and had broken his back.
Kennedy, who was 37, said that he was simply in shock, and that was why he had not called the police.
Are these people immune from the laws that govern the rest of us? If they hang Janklow is it because he isn't named Kennedy? Kennedy basically murdered Kopechne - went home and sobered up and didn't mention this until he had his ass covered! Why are our lawmakers immune from the laws they pass?
Not an official edit LD, just fixed your color tags
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