guzz, are you suggesting that they should abolish divorces and enact a "domestic homicide" law for disgruntled spouses? LOL. Hell, I agree that ten years in prison is better than decades of alimony.

OK - so ya hear this "Thump Thump" while driving off and decide, maybe I should run over him one more time, and DO IT! and then get only 10 years for the murder, if he would have stayed at the scene of the crime, the other 6 would never have happened. I know a lot of guys that would easily take 10 years to get rid of their ex-wives.

Ok, the highest charge here was Manslaughter which you can do a maximum of 10 years on anyway. If he would have went to trial, he would have possibly not even been convicted on that charge at all. The prosecutor didn't "plea down the charges" because that is was he was charged with in his criminal information, and that is what he was convicted of. If he would have pled down the charges he could have been convicted of a misdemeanor and not served any prison time on the charge at all.

Hey jw; I really liked the Mars comment! Good idea, but real expensive.

and that doesn't even get into the 'evidence' question - did they have enough to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt anything more than manslaughter? In this case, we might have saved two or three years of this guy being on the street waiting for his trial just to come to the same conclusion - or worse, not getting a conviction on a technicality. It's now up to the parole board to keep him locked up - and they need to be reminded they already let him out once and how that turned out. Like I said, I'm not for pleas in most cases, but in this case he's off the streets quickly and fairly cheaply. I'd rather have that than him out on the streets awaiting trial and possibly get into or cause something worse.

didn't say it made sense or that it won't cost more later. how many actually look that far down the road? Courts have budgets they have to adhere to each year. I'd much rather there be no pleas, but the courts would be absolutely clogged unless we all fessed up more money for more judges (and staff) and more jails to hold 'em all (both short and long term). just ruminating here... maybe we need to give NASA their budget back and use Mars like the Brit's used Australia

jw, where is the money saved when they have to arrest people like this again and again and keep taking them to court/trial? If criminals were locked up, they wont repeat crimes. Kind of like paying to fix the same pot hole time and time again when in the long run its cheaper to pave the whole street. Believe it or not, it is cheaper to house and feed them than it is to keep them on parole/probation and to let them repeat offenses.

I support pleas to a certain extent, and this one may be good. Have to consider a lot of this has to do with money and evidence - it costs a lot to put on a full-on prosecution (even more if we're paying a public defender), and you have to prove certain things - like motive; did he intend to kill/murder? (probably not in this case) So, the plea is he pleads guilty for the lesser charge of manslaughter, and he will do some time, and the crime will follow him forever. The county saves a few bucks by not having a full-blown trial (that they might have lost on any number of technicalities, or might simply have come down to the same verdict and sentence), and since he plead to a lesser charge, no appeal. Lots of tax dollars saved for basically the same sentence. Now, if (for instance - EXAMPLE NOT FACT HERE) these two had a history, and he picked the fight, and ran over the curb to chase this guy down, then hit him twice... that's all different because of motive, and murder is easier to prove. I hope since he violated his parole, he serves the full time as a return guest of the state.

ok, so this guy ran oer a bouncer, not once but twice, and what i don't understand is why is plea b argin even mentioned, why not just let the guy serve the time he gets for doing what he did. I guess i just don't get the justice system. If you do a crime you should not get any kind of consideration at all as far as a reduced sentence goes, i think that has alot to do with people commiting crimes

Less than 3 years. This prosecutor is a joke. He runs a man down with a car, killing him. The guys on probation, gets arrested for running a man down, and the prosecutor allows him to plea down the charges. This prosecutor needs to be removed from office and someone with a set needs to step in.