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Just spotted this article in the Honolulu Advertiser:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...conviction
The person convicted will serve one year's worth of weekends in the County slammer instead of the five year prison term the prosecutor sought. Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this picture? The cuprit apparently almost ran over the policemen at the stationary sobriety checkpoint. I'm not having a lot of faith in the local judiciary lately.
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what a joke this sentence was.
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If you have any errands to run, do them on weekends.
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Yesw, Jerry, there is something wrong with this picture.
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OK, seriously now, 14 convictions and weekends only... I think that some reporter out there should do some serious digging to see how he got to 13? convictions and was not in jail. Hmmmm, I think I'd start with family connections. It might not mean anything in the long run, but it could make the election muckraking season that much more fun.
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I read this today and found it to be odd. I may be hardcore but I tend to think that even one DUI should have some serious consequences and beyond that is throw away the key. There was a case like this in NY a few years back except the dude killed a couple of people on a sidewalk and it was his like 15th offense. Insane!
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Well, when killing your son and throwing his body over a cliff only gets you two years, you've got to make all other sentences proportional <he said, rolling his eyes...>
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Sigh! This person will more than likely cause GREAT bodily harm to someone - someway - someday.
Deputy Prosecutor Jason Skier - "told the judge that Moniz's record of 62 criminal convictions, including four for felonies, made a five-year prison term "appropriate for Mr. Moniz." "
"It seems Mr. Moniz has not learned that lesson (staying out of prison). At 63, he's already set in his ways; he's already got an entrenched criminal mentality."
What more can the Prosecutor say or do?
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Is there a recall procedure for judges in Hawaii?
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Quote "Yesw, Jerry, there is something wrong with this picture".
This seems to be a recurrent theme for sentencing! Farily recent example, molest a child and work for the county and get weekend jail for a year! I kid you not, same sentence as this DUI conviction!
It is my opinion that following the second DUI, that no matter if you were driving the gov's car for your second offence, you loose the car, turn it into a 2 foot square cube and send it to Japan for recycling. DUI is the equivalent standing on a hillside overlooking a full parking lot of 200 tailgaters and shooting several rounds from a rifle into the crowd willy nilly. Same deal.
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