re: Man gets 24 yrs vehicular manslaughter

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If I remember right they bribed the judge (can't prove the payoff but she could afford to retire shortly afterward).

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That judge caught a ton a flack for that judgement and there was a petition to have her removed from the bench after that horrendous verdict and light punishment.

She had previously sentenced a young man to 20 years for killing 1 person in a vehicular accident where he was at fault. His mother was a drug addict and he was being raised by his grandfather.

People were pissed that she handed down 10 years probation and a requirement of treatment for drug and alcohol abuse. That raised a lot of eyebrows

She did retire within a year of the trial in 2014.