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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:51 PM Mar 2016

Wealthy Canadian sentenced in drunken crash that killed 4

Source: Associated Press

Wealthy Canadian sentenced in drunken crash that killed 4

Updated 1:33 pm, Tuesday, March 29, 2016


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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, Marco Muzzo, right, arrives with family at the court house for his sentencing hearing in Newmarket, Ontario. A judge has sentenced Muzzo to 10 years in prison for killing three young children and their grandfather while driving drunk.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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TORONTO (AP) — A judge has sentenced a member of one of Canada's wealthiest families to 10 years in prison for killing three young children and their grandfather while driving drunk.

Marco Muzzo, 29, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm. Superior Court Justice Michelle Fuerst handed down the sentence Tuesday and also prohibited Muzzo from driving for 12 years. The children's mother sobbed quietly in the courtroom.

Nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, their two-year-old sister Milly and the children's 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville, died last September after the van they were in was hit by a speeding Muzzo, who was driving an SUV. Police said Muzzo was so drunk he urinated on himself after the collision.

Breathalyzer tests showed he had between two and three times the legal amount of alcohol in his blood.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Canadian-man-sentenced-in-crash-that-killed-3-7215066.php



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Ethan Couch, as a Texan, and in his disguise for hiding in Mexico.
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George II

(67,782 posts)
2. Canada has very strict DUI laws - ZERO alcohol if driving, and Americans are barred from entering...
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 09:01 PM
Mar 2016

....Canada if they have a DUI conviction.

Even george bush needed a special proclamation by the PM when he visited Canada.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
5. No. Same as USA. Come on, folks, this is easy with Google and Wikipedia
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 10:20 PM
Mar 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_law_by_country#Canada

Canada
Main article: Impaired driving in Canada

Canada: 0.05-0.08%

The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69 made it a per se offence to drive with a BAC in excess of 80 mg/100 ml of blood. Refusal of a police officer's demand to provide a breath sample was made an offence at the same time and both began as summary conviction offences, with a mandatory minimum $50 fine.[19]
Mexico

Mexico: 0.04-0.10% [20]

Foreigners with recent (in the past 10 years) drunk-driving criminal convictions are generally refused entry at the border. Mexico's Immigration Act section 36 considers any foreign drinking and driving outstanding charge or conviction as an Indictable offense (similar to a felony).
United States
Main article: Drunk driving in the United States
A 1937 poster warns US drivers about the dangers of mixing alcohol and driving.

United States: 0.08% BAC by volume

EllieBC

(3,016 posts)
7. Not affluence. Just Canadian sentences.
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:24 AM
Mar 2016

In a tiny town about an hour from Vancouver, some asshole 20 something year old plowed through an intersection and killed a woman. He was drunk. In the middle of the afternoon. It wasn't his first DUI.

He got 3.5 years.

The cost of a mother's life in Canada is apparently 3.5 years.

http://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/reece-handed-3-5-year-prison-sentence-1.1429204

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
9. Lock him up AND take away his wealth!
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:39 AM
Mar 2016

No idea how much this man has in wealth, but he should pay restitution to the families who lost their children, father, husband, etc. This man made a terrible mistake...but it cost four people their precious lives for HIS mistake. He needs to pay MORE than just sitting in a prison for ten years. They are gone FOREVER!!

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