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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:32 PM Jun 2014

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Man with 150 arrests gets 5 years for fatal hit-and-run

ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) – A 56-year-old man who has been arrested 150 times and convicted of six DUIs will spend five years in prison for an October 2012 hit-and-run crash that left a 4-year-old dead and his then 10-year-old brother injured.

Ricky Weeden Sr. struck a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, leaving the scene of a crash and driving with a revoked license. He had been charged with second-degree murder and assault.

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Joseph Walsh III accepted Weeden's plea deal.

He will receive credit for the 20 months he's already spent in jail for the incident.

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http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/06/17/ricky-weeden-senior-150-arrests-fatal-crash-traye-shon-williams-jayshard/10704805/

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Man with 150 arrests gets 5 years for fatal hit-and-run (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2014 OP

unfuckingbelievable. nt clarice Jun 2014 #1

What a fuckin' waste of humanity this POS is. The judge, that is. The killer is no prize either. nt valerief Jun 2014 #2

You do realize that it was the DA's whistler162 Jun 2014 #5

And yet someone with a first time non-violent drug possession arrest Swede Atlanta Jun 2014 #3

Wtf? Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2014 #4

clarice

(5,504 posts)

1. unfuckingbelievable. nt

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:38 PM

Jun 2014

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. What a fuckin' waste of humanity this POS is. The judge, that is. The killer is no prize either. nt

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:40 PM

Jun 2014

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

5. You do realize that it was the DA's

Reply to valerief (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:45 PM

Jun 2014

office that came up with the plea bargain. The judge was limited by the DA's deal.

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)

3. And yet someone with a first time non-violent drug possession arrest

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:41 PM

Jun 2014

spends 10-20 in prison without possibility of parole. We let the drunks drive and kill people and get off. We are a nation of stupids.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,324 posts)

4. Wtf?

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:41 PM

Jun 2014

"Weeden's driver's license was revoked in 1993. Records show that he was also involved in a 1983 crash that left two women dead."

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