Sorry it's been awhile... This story however made me jump in and blog it out.
Canada, specifically Nova Scotia, really needs to reexamine their priorities. Link it:
Okay, let’s recap: notorious 23 time repeat drunk driving offender gets 5 years plus added time for the other related offenses totally 8 ½ years in prison for his latest offense which occurred shortly after leaving prison for number 22. His lawyer is outraged. Way too harsh a sentence.
Really?
His attorney’s own words: “It offended the principle of totality by going beyond the five-year maximum for the impaired driving offence,” he explained to reporters after court. “The eight and a half years is, in my submission, three and a half years longer than the judge could’ve imposed given the current law.” Well then the current law needs a-changing, there Lawyer Bob Squarepants. Your client doesn’t get it. Driving drunk is dangerous to himself and every other living thing his car has the chance of encountering. Doing anything illegal 23 times borders on insanity. The deeper issue is this guy’s obviously over the top alcoholism (I know, I’m Ric Romero now), but please your client just got out of the pokey and did the same thing that wound him up there again. When the cops have a nickname for you, you know your life has begun swirling around the flushed toilet of life.
I think 8 ½ years is too short a time. Make it an even ten. Then make him work the next 10 in a rehabilitation clinic as a custodian. Let him see what people with issues like him are like first hand with the added bonus of cleaning up the messes the new residents make.
But you know, even that won’t change his outlook more than likely. He will do it again. And again. Until it catches up with him and he runs into the wrong car and his road trip ends for good.
And that is more than likely the next chapter in his life…
Chip Grefski
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