No jury, the defendant pleads no contest. No trial.
The defendant has zero prior arrests.
The following facts are neither disputed by the state nor the defense. These are the facts as both sides agrees.
1: The defendant was driving and SUV under the influence of alcohol at night, on the way home from a bar, on a 4-lane highway.
2: The victim fell off a motorcycle and rolled into oncoming traffic. The initial motorcycle accident was in no way a result of the defendant's actions.
3: The defendant rolled over the victim, unable to stop in time.
4: The victim is deceased, but it is inconclusive whether the victim died from the initial accident or from being ran over as a secondary consequence of falling off his/her motorcycle.
5: The defendant never crossed the center line. The victim's body rolled/bounced into the defendant's lane of traffic.
6: The defendant never stopped, the defendant never called the police.
7: The defendant is charged with, and pleads no contest to, DUI, hit and run, vehicular manslaughter.
What's your sentence, Judge GON Member?
UPDATE:
I dusted off the old case file to refresh my memory. I need to update OP after making this post-
BAC was .26
Defendant wasn't actually picked up at home, defendant never made it home. Cops caught up to defendant first.
Three motorcyclists were at a red light. When it turned green, one of them [the inexperienced one] accidentally popped a wheelie, lost control, fell into oncoming traffic. The second motorcyclist approached to help and also got clipped by the defendant, suffering injuries. So the defendant actually hit two people, killing 1. This is based on written statement from motorcyclist #3.
UPDATE #2-
Defendant was underage at the time of the accident, overage at time of sentencing.
FINAL CONCLUSION-
Mallory Hood was sentenced to two terms of 18 years and 15 years to serve concurrently, with no parole. So she will be in jail for 18 years. For context, in this same jurisdiction, six months later, another lady killed two people while drunk driving, and had two prior DUI's, and only got 8 years with 5 to serve.
The defendant has zero prior arrests.
The following facts are neither disputed by the state nor the defense. These are the facts as both sides agrees.
1: The defendant was driving and SUV under the influence of alcohol at night, on the way home from a bar, on a 4-lane highway.
2: The victim fell off a motorcycle and rolled into oncoming traffic. The initial motorcycle accident was in no way a result of the defendant's actions.
3: The defendant rolled over the victim, unable to stop in time.
4: The victim is deceased, but it is inconclusive whether the victim died from the initial accident or from being ran over as a secondary consequence of falling off his/her motorcycle.
5: The defendant never crossed the center line. The victim's body rolled/bounced into the defendant's lane of traffic.
6: The defendant never stopped, the defendant never called the police.
7: The defendant is charged with, and pleads no contest to, DUI, hit and run, vehicular manslaughter.
What's your sentence, Judge GON Member?
UPDATE:
I dusted off the old case file to refresh my memory. I need to update OP after making this post-
BAC was .26
Defendant wasn't actually picked up at home, defendant never made it home. Cops caught up to defendant first.
Three motorcyclists were at a red light. When it turned green, one of them [the inexperienced one] accidentally popped a wheelie, lost control, fell into oncoming traffic. The second motorcyclist approached to help and also got clipped by the defendant, suffering injuries. So the defendant actually hit two people, killing 1. This is based on written statement from motorcyclist #3.
UPDATE #2-
Defendant was underage at the time of the accident, overage at time of sentencing.
FINAL CONCLUSION-
Mallory Hood was sentenced to two terms of 18 years and 15 years to serve concurrently, with no parole. So she will be in jail for 18 years. For context, in this same jurisdiction, six months later, another lady killed two people while drunk driving, and had two prior DUI's, and only got 8 years with 5 to serve.
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