re: Cecil 'The Diesel' Collins may face more jail time

You get someone like Donte Stallworth who kills someone with his car while drunk and stoned and gets a slap because he has money....

Stallworth was charged with DUI manslaughter on April 1, 2009; he surrendered to police on April 2, 2009, and was released on $200,000 bail.[28] As a result of a plea deal, he received a sentence of 30 days in the county jail, plus 1,000 hours of community service, 2 years of community control, and 8 years probation.[29] He has also received a life-time suspension of his Florida state driver's license.[30] On July 10, 2009, Stallworth was released from county jail after serving 24 days of a 30-day sentence.
"The Associated Press reported on June 16, 2009, that Stallworth and the Reyes family reached a financial agreement, avoiding a civil lawsuit. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.[31]
On August 13, 2009, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated that Stallworth would be suspended for the entire 2009 season without pay. Stallworth was reinstated after Super Bowl XLIV."

Cecil just doesn't have money...that's why he's getting the max here.

That's bullshite. Stallworth had attempted to sleep it off, but was unaware that he still had a BAC over the limit. It was .12 and he was doing 50 in a 40, which is not egregious, and hit a pedestrian in the middle of the street, so let's not get carried away, dick.

He could have plead innocent and probably won, with all the money you seem to fault him for having:

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Over and over, members of Stallworth's elite team of attorneys shouted at him to fight the charges. They said there was no way to prove who was at fault. Reyes, after all, dashed across a busy freeway to catch a bus near a green light that rarely turns red. There was other evidence, never released to the public, Boucher said, that the lawyers wanted to give that would aid Stallworth's case. Still he said no

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Being someone who could fix the crime problem in this country, I propose that he be granted the normal release under the condition that, should he commit another transgression such as armed robbery, drug possession, rape, or whatever they categorized his creepy home invasion/Peeping Tom thing, he receive the death penalty with no chance for appeal. Other than that, he's paid his debt to society - so let him go.

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You get someone like Donte Stallworth who kills someone with his car while drunk and stoned and gets a slap because he has money....

Stallworth was charged with DUI manslaughter on April 1, 2009; he surrendered to police on April 2, 2009, and was released on $200,000 bail.[28] As a result of a plea deal, he received a sentence of 30 days in the county jail, plus 1,000 hours of community service, 2 years of community control, and 8 years probation.[29] He has also received a life-time suspension of his Florida state driver's license.[30] On July 10, 2009, Stallworth was released from county jail after serving 24 days of a 30-day sentence.
"The Associated Press reported on June 16, 2009, that Stallworth and the Reyes family reached a financial agreement, avoiding a civil lawsuit. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.[31]
On August 13, 2009, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated that Stallworth would be suspended for the entire 2009 season without pay. Stallworth was reinstated after Super Bowl XLIV."

Cecil just doesn't have money...that's why he's getting the max here.

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Leonard Little killed a woman in a DUI accident in 1998 (.19 BAC), received 4 years probation, 1000 hours of community service and no jail time. He got another DUI in 2004 and again received probation and no jail time. He admitted to drinking in the 2004 case but somehow got the DUI dropped.