Monday, November 21, 2011
Double Standards?
I wish I would have thought of writing this earlier because I would love to read other's comments, but I literally was thinking about the situation surrounding my husband's death. On November 6th, 2009, my 23 year old husband was killed by a negligent 81 year old in a car accident. We lived in California at the time and the state law on vehicular manslaughter (which is what the man was charged with) has a minimum of 4 years in jail. From what I know from my lawyer was that he never served any jail time, he only had his license taken away. Do you think it's right that somehow this man got out of serving jail time, I am assuming because he was 81 years old at the time? What about if the roles were reversed? What if my husband killed this old man in the same manner? I am pretty sure he would have served the minimum jail time sentence. Do you think that it's right that some how this man didn't serve jail time for killing a US Marine?
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The world we live in without a doubt has double standards much like this one. If the roles were reversed I'm almost positive he would have served not the minimum but the maximum sentence as well as been labeled a horrible person and been all over the news. In the reverse, our country sees the 81 year old as an "old man" and thinks its punishment enough to take his license away thereby taking away some form of freedom. They didn't want to put him in jail because of the harsh conditions that would have most likely killed him. The state wants no negative press about putting an old man in prison and watching him die. Unfortunately that's the way things happen and I'm really sorry you didn't get the justice you rightly deserve. I don't at all think this right nor do I agree with it but in the minds or the majority, this is justified.
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