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From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
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Subject: Re: DWI Crackdowns
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 09:54:34 EDT
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In article <269@SCIRTP.UUCP> todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) writes:
>>     Why not ... when someone drunk kill an innocent bystander, charge
>> them with murder. That's what it is, really!
>> 
>> Cheers,		Fred Williams
>
>No Fred, it's manslaughter, and drunk drivers who kill anyone
>*can* be charged with manslaughter.
>
>-todd jones

    I stand corrected! Does this depend on what state one is in?
(or country, I suppose.) In Canada, prov. of Quebec, I know of one
person who hit a 16 year old girl riding a bicyle. A mile later down
the road he bagan to wonder if something had happened, he wasn't quite
sure, so he turned around & went back. The girl was dead.  I think he
got a three month sentence, and was then put back on the road because
he makes his living driving a company truck, and the judge didn't want
to take away his livlyhood.
- Yes, it was the company truck he hit the girl with.

Cheers(?)		Fred Williams