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[justgetbackup]

It's Friday.

The huge snow storm is over. South of us got hit bad, and across the border in WI got it. About a foot, I hear. It seems we had a force field around us. I didn't see one flake.

Shane got $1 raise at his 90 day review when he'd been led to expect nothing.

And the kicker - mollies killer got found guilty of 3 out of the 4 counts he was

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[justgetbackup]

Yes, he was found guilty of three charges of vehicular manslaughter - I can't recall what they all are, I know leaving the scene was one, and I think negligence was another. However, since they didn't find him until the next day, so they don't have proof of his BAC at the time of the accident. I figured there was enough circumstantial evidence - phone call recordings to his friends that night about how he's "never drinking again," the testimony of a bouncer at a bar he was at earlier in the day (and got fired for testifying), the fact he had three other DUI's in less than a year before hitting Mollie... but I guess not.

He's actually expected to get 10-15 years. Those are actually the max he can get on the charges, and of course it won't equal that with time served and good behavior and all that. Pisses me off. I'm expecting the judge to give him the max, though, because he was so blatantly lying in court, it was insane. Especially saying he didn't know he hit her (how do you not know when you hit somebody while on a motorcycle?!) and then he hid his bike under a canoe and some brush - but said it was to protect his bike from the rain, not to hide it. Yeah, right. The bike was full of mud and gravel - rain would only help it! And his saddlebags were hidden under a junked car on the property... like it's all just so freaking shady.

Now we gotta wait until May to see what he gets, though. In the mean time, the family will prepare for their civil trial, and Hartley has to go to court again for a previous drunk driving charge, which he may get another three years for (I think that's the one he faked a seizure on when the cops pulled him over). As it is, with who Mollie was, they've got him separated from the general population in jail because people have said they're going to kill him... and I know people on the outside want to, too... so I think he's done living a good life.

[deepseasiren]

Oh shit he left the scene??? What a coward! Owing up to it at least would show he was taking some responsibility!!

I had an ex-boyfriend who had a son killed by a guy who was driving 120 miles an hour, high on meth, and had been convicted of SIX DUIs involving meth and alcohol. In Nevada that would ( six DUIs) would get you 10 years in prison, period. He got a 20 year sentence for the vehicular manslaughter of my ex's son though. Still, I know when they say '20 years' usually they serve half the time, unless the family continues to show up for parole hearings to state they don't want that person out of prison.

I'm really sorry about your friend Mollie...* HUGS *

Speaking of also my uncle was killed by a drunk driver. So yeah I do have experience with that shit. And I do not have much mercy at all for someone who gets behind the wheel and drives off fucked up.

[justgetbackup]

I'm really unfamiliar with the dui laws and stuff around here, I'm just really hoping he gets as much time as possible.

Sadly, I never knew mollie. Shane was very close to her, and her family. I love her parents and see them often, but usually when I'd go there, mollie was in Iraq or Afghanistan so I never got the chance to meet her.