team2jndd
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Originally Posted by phunckie
Does that make it any more legal or any less stupid?
I disagree. The point of probation is that you avoid the penalty for your crime, assuming you keep your nose clean. If you get in trouble again (hence violating your probation), you can, and should pay the maximum penalty for your crimes (notice the plural, as in violating the probation involves a second crime.)
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is paying the penalty for the fact that she chose to drive while legally intoxicated (regardless of how many drinks it may have taken her to get there), AND for a second offense of driving with a suspended license. Doesn't sound like she paid that high a penalty to me.....
The jail time wasn't for the DUI it was for the suspended liscense. 45 days for a missed court date and suspended liscense is steep to me. I think we could fill cells with people a little more deserving than
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. You do know that Murderers and rapists are on average released after only half of their sentence because the jails are so overcrowded they need the room for the "new" criminals? Does anybody care that those people are released from prison? No, but god forbid
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doesnt eat so they let her go.
Does that make it any more legal or any less stupid?
I disagree. The point of probation is that you avoid the penalty for your crime, assuming you keep your nose clean. If you get in trouble again (hence violating your probation), you can, and should pay the maximum penalty for your crimes (notice the plural, as in violating the probation involves a second crime.)
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is paying the penalty for the fact that she chose to drive while legally intoxicated (regardless of how many drinks it may have taken her to get there), AND for a second offense of driving with a suspended license. Doesn't sound like she paid that high a penalty to me.....
The jail time wasn't for the DUI it was for the suspended liscense. 45 days for a missed court date and suspended liscense is steep to me. I think we could fill cells with people a little more deserving than
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. You do know that Murderers and rapists are on average released after only half of their sentence because the jails are so overcrowded they need the room for the "new" criminals? Does anybody care that those people are released from prison? No, but god forbid
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doesnt eat so they let her go.