Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
> I'm amazed. People with that kind of money can burn down an orphanage and
> avoid prison. Does San Bernardino actually have an honest judge?
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26237426/
>
> Lottery winner goes to prison for deadly crash
> Man won $10 million in 2001, gets 17 years for driving drunk; 3 killed
> updated 11:29 a.m. MT, Sat., Aug. 16, 2008
>
> SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A man who won $10 million in a California lottery
> game was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for a drunken-driving
> crash that killed three people.
>
> Thomas Turnour pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while
> intoxicated and causing injury while driving intoxicated.
>
> The winner of a SuperLotto game in 2001 was sentenced Friday in San
> Bernardino.
>
> The 52-year-old man from Victorville was driving a pickup that hit a car
> stopped at a red light in San Bernardino three years ago, authorities say.
> Three people inside the first car died.
>
> His attorney said Turnour essentially "turned over everything he has" to
> settle a lawsuit filed by the victims' families.

Huh. You push for prison time for killing-by-DUI and question the
integrity of a judge who does just what you recommend? Looks like you
need a break from the confusion. Might I recommend sunbathing in
Antarctica? I hear it's PERFECT this time of year.
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