Drunk woman kills two, gets six months

"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal) 04/18/2014 at 07:18 • Filed to: Tips, Car Crime

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A Stamford, Conn. woman goes out drinking with friends one night, and on her way home hits two teen who were changing a tire on their car, dragging one 170 feet under her Navigator and killing both. She was able to plea to DUI and will serve 6 months but she gets off on the felony charges for vehicular manslaughter.

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SnowBallin > Just wear your damn mask... 04/18/2014 at 07:24

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if you want murder someone, do it while you are drunk. Time and time again, people get off by pulling the drunk card

ly2v8-Brian > SnowBallin 04/18/2014 at 07:39

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Makes me sick. These idiots should have their license and vehicle confiscated. Driving is a privilege not a right. They denied someone the right to life the least we can do is deny them the privilege of driving for life. ZERO TOLERANCE on this issue.

jariten1781 > Just wear your damn mask... 04/18/2014 at 07:49

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During Thursday's hearing, Weiss told Judge Richard Comerford that investigators could not pinpoint exactly where Blanks struck Chagas and Silva — whether they were on the shoulder or standing in the roadway. Blanks' Navigator never struck any part of the car Chagas and Silva were changing the tire on, he said.

Because of the lack of evidence against her, the manslaughter charges were never filed, Weiss said.

Weiss said the state's case against Blanks was further complicated because state police, thinking that the case had already been settled, destroyed the car and most of the state's evidence in 2013.

More of a massive police fuck up than letting someone off because they were drunk. Weiss is the prosecutor and he was telling the judge that the state didn't even know where the guys were hit. Would have been a total nightmare to prosecute as the defense would claim either that the guys had previously been struck or that they were in the roadway and impossible to have been seen. If the prosecution had no way to counter that with real evidence, that would have been enough to provide reasonable doubt and for her to walk. Without a better investigation, the state basically had its hands tied and probably felt lucky to even get a plea deal.

wkiernan > Just wear your damn mask... 04/18/2014 at 07:50

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You should read the brain-damaged comments in the linked article. Somehow or another a drunk yoga instructor becomes a "fellow politician" and somehow she gets linked to Michelle Obama. It's like reading the comments on a yahoo.com article - the Internet's chimpanzee cage.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Just wear your damn mask... 04/18/2014 at 08:17

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It's things like this that make me avoid the news. If I watched the news channel before heading out on a morning I'd spend the whole day in a bad mood.

Just wear your damn mask... > jariten1781 04/18/2014 at 08:39

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I read that, and it sounded like an expensive lawyer at work. There is no dispute that she was 1) intoxicated and 2) hit the two victims who were near the car. The what and where are answered. What difference does their EXACT location matter?

mazdaspeed2 > Just wear your damn mask... 04/18/2014 at 09:05

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This is disgusting...

jariten1781 > Just wear your damn mask... 04/18/2014 at 10:01

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Oh, she'll get hit hard in a wrongful death suit because of exactly those facts. In a criminal suit the possibility, no matter how remote, that the victims ran out into the lane leaving her no time to react regardless of her drunken condition would have let her walk on the manslaughter charges. If the police could have stated explicitly that they were out of the travel lane on the shoulder she'd have hung. Even if the work at the scene had been shoddy they could have done a reconstruction based on the damage to the vehicle and the photographs of the bodies locations, however all that evidence was destroyed due to a fuck up. The burden of proof for manslaughter is rightfully very high and the public puts its trust in the police and states attorneys to ensure that is met. You know they failed miserably at their jobs when the prosecutor tells the judge in his own case that he doesn't even really know where the victims were killed.