Jury Convicts Drag Racers
 

Jury rejects murder charges and convicts pair of manslaughter:

http://www.courttv.com/trials/dragrace/051903_ctv.html

I know we all like to step on it from time to time,but racing should be kept on the track to prevent things like that to happen.

Punishment phase of trial?
 

I think the manslaughter conviction is more reasonable than a murder conviction. It'll be interesting what punishment they get. Maybe somene can post that when it's determined.

Rev

Will do, I'm keeping an eye on this.

I dont think murder is justified because it wasnt premeditated

thats kinda sticky cause where i live premeditated is having those10 beers and then driving or when you decided to race.its the act of knowingly doing something illegal, robbing a bank and killing a gaurd shown this type of link if you plan to rob the bank you must of thought it through including the killing , ive back off of lots of street races because i knerw someone may get hurt or even killed because of what i was doing.

but its all kinda mute as we arent on the jury and dont know all the details.

sometimes it amazes me when someone who murders someone premeditively get out in like 10 years and say these guys could get more time depending on the sentencing.

The conviction on gross vehicular manslaughter means Waller, 32, faces about seven years in prison and Calhoun, who was not directly involved in the crash, but fled the scene, faces about 12 years in prison


so they guy who left is facing longer time than the guy who manslaughtered them. ??????

The 7yrs vs. 12yrs is kind of misleading. The 12 yrs is calculated because he was convicted of more crimes (leaving the scene). I presume the crash was worth 7 yrs and leaving the scene was worth 5 years. Most sentences are concurrent which means they're run together and not consecutively (back to back). So, they say 12 years which is the grand total but most likely Calhoun will get out earlier via parole because he didn't directly cause the deaths whereas Waller did. Parole boards take the circumstances of the crimes committed when considering petitions for release on parole.

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This is off topic but that may be the dumbest thing I have ever read on this board.

:rolleyes:

That's EXACTLY why it's there. :D

If bottles are for babies, why did i just spank your azz???

Huh?

....Very sad story. :( Thanks for the updates 20LbsBoost

Those guys are street racers not drag racers.

barracuda -vs- geo
 

'cuda gonna win every time...
buy your kids big old, heavy cars, not recycled-metal foreign crap...

i agree, drag racing is done at the track.

Holy tread resurrection batman!

Sorry but I think they should have paid for what they did at least the one that was driving " waller" He killed two people guys come on. Ya he didnt mean to do it but christ when people street race they have to be carefull about shitt. If there was a car on either side of the race then ya gotta think" oh ok something bad could happen here mabye I should stop" You would all be saying he deserves a conviction if you knew those people. The other dude doesnt deserve anything though

Here's a question no one has addressed yet.

Who had the right of way?

Seems to me she didn't

Thats what I said!!

I think its sad when two people die and two more go to prison all because someone didn't properly yield the right of way.

Had they all lived (and not been racing) SHE would have gotten the ticket.