Mother who lost son in accident faces more jail time than the hit and run driver

http://www.care2.com/causes/mother-who-lost-son-in-hit-and-run-faces-longer-jail-term-than-driver.html

"Yes, Nelson could be jailed for 30 months longer than the driver of the vehicle that killed her child. Furthermore, she’s been charged with vehicular homicide in her own child’s death, even though she was a pedestrian when the accident occurred."

I also note the driver has been convicted of hit and run before, so he's probably also a Republican.

A friend's niece is in jail because her common-law spouse killed their child...after beating her.

America is primed to become a full fledged police State, as it has lost every shred of it's humanity.

http://t4america.org/blog/2011/07/18/prosecuting-the-victim-absolving-the-perpetrators/

SNIP

Nelson, 30 and African-American, was convicted on the charge this week by six jurors who were not her peers: All were middle-class whites, and none had ever taken a bus in metro Atlanta. In other words, none had ever been in Nelson’s shoes:

They had never taken two buses to go grocery shopping at Wal-Mart with three kids in tow. They had never missed a transfer on the way home that caused them to wait a full hour-and-a-half with tired and hungry kids for the next bus. They had never been let off at a bus stop on a five-lane speedway, with their apartment in sight across the road, and been asked to drag those three little ones an additional half-mile-plus down the road to the nearest traffic signal and back in order to get home at last.

And they had never lost control of an over-eager four-year-old as they waited on a three-foot median for a car to pass. Nor had they watched helplessly as a driver who had had “three or four” beers and two painkillers barreled toward their child.

That’s right: Because Nelson did not lug her exhausted little ones three-tenths of a mile from the bus stop to a traffic signal in order to cross five lanes of traffic, she is guilty of vehicular homicide. Because she did as her fellow bus riders, who crossed at the same time and place, and because she did what pedestrians will do every time – take the shortest reasonable path – she is guilty of vehicular homicide.

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a reason, and this woman needs a very good lawyer to set this straight.

Hopefully the publicity will attract a good lawyer, this is disgusting. We are so punitive
toward people who do not deserve such treatment. The driver is a reckless schmuck, this
story needs to go viral.