Rep. Fossella (R-NY) Gets 5 Days For Drunk Driving

[babylonsister]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/12/congressman_gets_5_days_for_dr.php

Congressman gets 5 days for drunken driving

DUI conviction leads to 5 days in jail for NY Rep. Fossella

DEVLIN BARRETT
AP News

Dec 08, 2008 15:43 EST

Disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella has been sentenced to five days in jail for drunken driving.

Judge Becky Moore decided Fossella was so drunk he met the legal threshold for a five-day stint in jail. Fossella's May 1 arrest led to revelations he had fathered a child through an extramarital affair.

Buffeted by questions about his personal secrets, Fossella chose not to seek re-election and will leave Congress next month.

Fossella was arrested after running a red light on May 1 in a Virginia suburb of Washington, and convicted of drunken driving in October. Under Virginia law, a driver who registers a blood alcohol content of 0.15 or higher must serve five days behind bars. Police say Fossella's blood alcohol content was 0.17.

[Uben]

1. good thing he wasn't smokin a doobie

He woulda got 25 to life!


5 days? Wonder how old he'll be when he gets out?

[malaise]

2. Rethug Thomas W. Druce

killed a man in a hit and run a few years ago. He should have been jailed for life.
Lots of details here.
http://www.prisoners.com/drucekil.html

http://www.deadlyroads.com/believeitornot.html
Former four term Pennsylvania Congressman Thomas W Druce, who is serving a two to four year sentence for the hit and run death of 42-year-old Kenneth Cains on July 27, 1999, wants out early. Druce almost got away with the hit and run, after secretly having his vehicle repaired, until a mysterious letter showed up at a local media outlet, revealing what had happened. Finally, in September 2000, Druce pled guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident, tampering with evidence and insurance fraud. But after a few weeks in prison, he was allowed out during an appeal. So for 3-1/2 years, Druce lived a normal life, with a curfew that required him to ask permission to be out of his house between 10 pm at night and 6 am in the morning. Finally, in May of this year, Druce was ordered back to his minimum security prison to begin serving the sentence.

[Rebubula]

3. Sadly...

Our Drunk Driving laws are pretty weak. It is not just the powerful few that 'get away with murder' - many people are killed each week by drunk drivers, yet few of those drivers spend more than a couple of years (at best) in jail.

30 years ago - I would have no problem with those sentences as society had not been educated yet. After 30 years of MADD commercials and over 100,000 dead (I am pretty sure that I am low-balling that number) - the punishment for killing someone while driving drunk should be 20 years in prison - NO PAROLE.

Drive drunk - spend a year in jail.

[babylonsister]

4. Jeeze. Druce only got 2-4, AFTER tampering with evidence? Now

imagine if that were you or me. :eyes: