[SDCBC] Maximum Sentence for Killing Bicyclist

[Jack Bochsler]

For Melissa Arrington to get the maximum sentence:

How much less remorse would Melissa Arrington have to have had?
How much more beyond 195% of the legal BAC would Melissa
Arrington have to have been?
How many more prior DUIs would Melissa Arrington have to have had?
How many more other laws would Melissa Arrington have to have broken?
How much deader would Paul L'Ecuyer have to have been?

Superior Court Judge Michael Cruikshank should have to provide
public justification for not assigning the maximum penalty.

My money says that she will be back on the streets in 2 years.

jack

--- Danette Hoffert <danettehoffert at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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