YAY - Another drunk driver convicted of murder

We need more of this. Stop coddling these killers on our highways.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/18/we...ion=cnn_latest

Driver guilty of murder in wedding limo crash
POSTED: 11:29 a.m. EDT, October 18, 2006

MINEOLA, New York (AP) -- A jury convicted a man on Tuesday of murder
for driving drunk the wrong way on a highway, slamming head-on into a
wedding limousine and killing the chauffeur and a 7-year-old flower
girl.

Prosecutors said Martin Heidgen, 25, drove his pickup truck more than
2 miles on the Long Island highway before ramming head-on into the
limousine in July 2005.

They contended Heidgen never tried to stop and turned slightly toward
the limousine in the seconds before the crash.

Heidgen, of Valley Stream, had at least 14 drinks before getting
behind the wheel; his blood-alcohol level, 0.28, was more than three
times the 0.08 legal limit in New York state, prosecutors said.

Kate Flynn and limousine driver Stanley Rabinowitz, 59, were killed.
Five other members of the Flynn family were injured.

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Defense attorney Stephen LaMagna complained that prosecutors held
Heidgen to the "same standard as a cold-blooded murderer" but
insisted, "this is a kid who drank too much and got lost on the way
home."

Heidgen faces 25 years to life in prison. The jury, which was
sequestered on the fourth day of deliberations, had a choice of
convicting him on the lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter,
which carries up to 15 years in prison.

Hi. This is the meow-send program at usenet. I'm afraid I wasn't able
to deliver any clue to the following address: Speeders & Drunk Drivers
are MURDERERS >
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.


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>We need more of this. Stop coddling these killers on our highways.

Hell, let's stop electing them to the senate.


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"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973

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El Pollo Loco (Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend) demonstrates it's complete gullibility, stupidity, and state of delusion when it falls for an April Fool's joke, hook, line, and sinker:

> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...6999983?hl=en&

Ragnar wrote:
> Gods, you're dumb. Its a rather obvious April Fool's joke. And you're
> the Fool.

This is no joke.

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Speeders & Drunk
Drivers are MURDERERS spewed in rec.autos.driving:

> We need more of this. Stop coddling sloth killers like myself
> on our highways.

Gave the headers a little trim. You're welcome in advance.


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Loco Laura demonstrates how inconsistent its
thinking is:

"and besides there is no way to enforce slow
driving speed limits. THINK"
--Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend, 1/30/06

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