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Originally Posted by recycledsixtie
About 10 years ago a Corvette here did a burnout start from a downtown intersection. Something broke, the car went sideways and killed a woman on the sidewalk. That should scare anybody thinking of doing this kind of thing.....  |
True story. I spent some time working in federal LE. A colleague in the state court calls me knowing that I'm a car guy with a "you won't believe what happened here" story. Basically he tells of two guys that were racing on the highway. They wreck and in the ensuing crash they kill a woman in another car. Remember this is state court (anything goes) not federal, so the guy with means who was racing gets a top notch insanely expensive defense lawyer. The guy of modest means gets a lawyer from the phone book. Rich guys gets vehicular manslaughter, probably 2-3 years prison. Poor guy gets
death by auto, 10 year minimum sentence.