[SDCBC] Maximum Sentence for Killing Bicyclist

[Danette Hoffert]

Superior Court Judge Michael Cruikshank should get a medal and a parade
because he is locked up and "took out" a loser, a drunk, a sociopath, a
reckless driver and a just plain ugly human being.

On Jan 24, 2008 1:30 PM, Neil Brooks <neil0502 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I'm gonna' be sick.
>
> Score one for the good guys, at least.
>
> --- Philip Erdelsky <pje at efgh.com> wrote:
>
> >  From Fox News online:
> >
> > TUCSON, Ariz. —  A judge sentenced a woman to nearly the maximum prison
> term
> > for negligent homicide after hearing a recorded jail conversation in
> which
> > she
> > made light of the bicyclist she killed.
> >
> > Melissa Arrington, 27, was convicted two months ago of negligent
> homicide and
> >
> > two counts of aggravated DUI in connection with the December 2006 death
> of
> > Paul L'Ecuyer.
> >
> > She could have gotten as few as four years behind bars, but Superior
> Court
> > Judge Michael Cruikshank sentenced her Tuesday to 10 1/2 years — one
> year shy
> >
> > of the maximum.
> >
> > Cruikshank said he found a telephone conversation between Arrington and
> an
> > unknown male friend, a week after L'Ecuyer was killed, to be
> "breathtaking in
> >
> > its inhumanity."
> >
> > During the conversation, the man told Arrington that an acquaintance
> believed
> >
> > she should get a medal and a parade because she had "taken out" a "tree
> > hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot."
> >
> > Arrington laughed. When the man said he knew it was a terrible thing to
> say,
> > she responded, "No, it's not."
> >
> > Assistant Public Defender Michael Rosenbluth told the judge his client
> has
> > never been "cold, callous or flippant" about L'Ecuyer's death and has
> always
> > felt remorseful.
> >
> > Arrington said words couldn't express how she feels, and that once she's
> out
> > of prison, she hopes to share her story with Mothers Against Drunk
> Driving.
> >
> > L'Ecuyer, 45, was riding his bike the night of Dec. 1, 2006 when
> Arrington
> > swerved off the road, hit him and then continued for 800 feet before
> > stopping,
> > according to Deputy Pima County Attorney Jonathan Mosher.
> >
> > Arrington's blood-alcohol content was .156 percent, nearly double
> Arizona's
> > .08 legal limit. She had been driving on a suspended license for a prior
> DUI.
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