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• saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  there was an old redditism that the best way to get off with murder is to use your car and call it an accident… I wonder if this is that. Get plastered, kill a nazi, go to jail for 5 years instead of 20.

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  • WillFord27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She lists on her WriteAPrisoner page that her biggest inspiration is Maya Angelou, a black civil rights activist. She also has her bachelor’s in journalism. Not impossible lol.

    Unfortunately her earliest release date is midway through 2033, 15 years after incarceration in 2018.

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  • Booboofinget@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d buy her a drink!

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  • LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She’s going to prison for at least another 15 years before she’s eligible for parole.

    But I hear you in the car accident bullshit

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Genuinely true! Killing with cars is a misdemeanor.

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    • cattywampas@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This depends on the state and depends wildly on the circumstances. Driving in a reckless manner, e.g. while intoxicated, and killing someone is probably a felony everywhere.

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  • madthumbs@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt someone with that BAC is doing much intentionally. Maybe if you chugged a bunch before the BAC test just after the accident.

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, how long did it take the cops to get there? Because .42 is crazy fucking high. It can absolutely kill you it’s so high. She would have had to have more than 10 drinks in an hour for that. That’s about two thirds of a fifth between the time it was called in and when the cops got there.

      I’m not saying it’s not doable. I’m saying if she did that she was trying to die.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    there was an old redditism that the best way to get off with murder is to use your car

    Not a redditism. An urbinist-ism. Reddit had a healthy contingent of urbanists, but you’ll find us here on Lemmy too, over at !fuckcars@lemmy.world, or !urbanism@slrpnk.net. (Or, frankly, because it’s a movement with significant overlap to anticapitalism, just all around the threadiverse.)

    And it’s completely true, too. I can easily think of half a dozen cases where someone killed someone else with a car and got away scott-free in my country alone (in fact: with just one exception, the ones that come to my mind are all in my city alone). And only one of those cases even went to court as far as I know.

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    • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Italy there’s been a big push against this in the last decade.

      There’s now a law called “road murder” (omicidio stradale) which makes the penalties for killing someone while driving, especially if intoxicated, more similar to intentional murder (rather than manslaughter). It’s essentially aggravated manslaughter, when you cause the death of someone while driving recklessly.

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Canada you'd be unlucky to even get jail time at all, it's fucked. We're kinda infamous for this.

      One I remember was a driver going 120 km/hr in a 60 zone, ran over some girl guides, and kills an 8 year old.

      2 years of house arrest.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dan Sheehan (of “NOT A WOLF”) wrote a piece about how easy it is to get away with vehicular murder on his blog: reallyveryhuman.com/…/where-can-a-car-kill-me

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• omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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