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More examples of undue leniency shown to repeat drunk drivers

By Douglas A. Berman

Drunk drivers pose a much bigger day-to-day threat to average Americans than terrorists or sex offenders.  As this official data spotlights, though alcohol-impaired driving fatalities declined in 2007, roughly 250 persons were killed each and every week in the US as a result of alcohol-impaired driving crashes.  Nevertheless, though we have an on-going war on terror and see lots of new law designed to get tough and hyper-regulate sex offenders, the terrible harms from the crime of drunk driving still has not prevented recidivist drunk drivers from getting breaks at sentencing. The latest evidence of undue leniency being shown to drunk drivers comes today from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which has this fascinating new article headlined "Most felony drunken drivers avoid prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).