Judge Jean Boyd
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WTF????!!!! I simply cannot contain my outrage.
Drunken teen, with three times the legal blood-alcohol limit, driving more than twice the legal speed limit, kills four people and cripples two more.
His defense is that he was too coddled by an overly-insular, affluent upbringing to have properly learned right from wrong, to have learned that actions have consequences.
And the idiotic judge actually bought into this bullshit. Texas State District Judge Jean Boyd gave him ten years of probation and a six-month stint undergoing “therapy” in a five-star facility, replete with fine resort amenities, where the so-called therapy includes things such as horseback riding and tennis.
This judge is an execrable disgrace and needs to be summarily removed by whatever means is available in Texas.
And if one of the victims had been my loved one, I wouldn’t hesitate to take the now brazenly nullified law into my own two hands, and mete out directly this snot-nosed little bastard’s due measure of justice. And I’d do so with a full understanding of the consequences I would have to face. Without justice, there can be no civilization worth standing.
Poesy plus Polemics 
I saw that on the news. A sad state of affairs, people should be responsible for their behaviour, especially where others are killed or hurt.
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this one just lit my fire
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I can see that, and it should have never gotten to this stage.
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The rich will always get away with no matter what they do. Sad.
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it’s tragic to all society
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There is always civil court – not much of a comfort to their families but maybe a way to hit this kid and his family where they hold their hearts – in their wallets.
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sounds like their wallets are too big to hurt
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Unbelievable~that anyone could do such horrendous damage and get a slap on the wrist, with an excuse as flimsy as a piece of onionskin paper.
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makes me want to scream
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AAAAARRRRGGGG! I AGREE WITH YOU! What good are laws if they only apply to some?
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the answer is they become useless
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I agree 100%, Paul. My neighbor and I were talking about it yesterday–that, and the equally absurd and disturbing story of the 6-yr old who was suspended from school for kissing the hand of his little friend. In the first case, a life sentence would have been appropriately “just”; and in the 2nd, the little guy should have been applauded for his courtly manners (unless he was actually forcing his attentions on her). I suspect the Texas judge is caught in the money system, which prevails over the justice one.
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right on all counts – I believe they decided to withdraw the suspension of the little gentleman
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I feel exactly the same way…so “Affluenza” is now the newest diagnosis to save an affluent killer from serving time.
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it’s crazy
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I am disgusted also. I can’t believe she handed down this judgement. I wonder if the prosecution can appeal a judgement or just the defense.
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no expert, but I don’t believe the prosecution can appeal in any court
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Your innonce can always be bought from the right lawyer.. but I guess judged by your peers is what change it all.
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he was judged guilty – but the sentence is absurd
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I will be excoriating Canadian judges in my forthcoming books. Ours are no better.
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they are like vital organs that have shut down
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Apt simile. I will be arguing that we are in the midst of the same sort of long-term (centuries) social breakdown which befell the Roman Empire. It is a process of narcissistic expansion and decline.
In others words, the event that you have posted about is an example of the breakdown of a social organ. Hence your apt if not superb simile.
You don’t work for the NSA in your spare time, do you? };-)>
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ha ha – no – but I’m sure they keep an eye on me
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You especially!
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“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.” – George Bernard Shaw
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vintage GBS
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Outrageous!!
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you bet it is
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Affluenza? Finally, a disease I want.
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LMAO
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Sad situation. Don’t really know what this judge was thinking other than a giant image of stupid
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I’ll buy that
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A moral outrage!!! A piss poor travesty of justice!!! I can’t believe it!
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stomps justice like a bug
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I couldn’t agree more. The only justice for this outrage is against the law but TOTALLY WARRANTED nonetheless!!!
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as I said – I wouldn’t hesitate
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Really?! This is an infuriating tragedy. Our “justice” system is broken.
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indeed it is
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Hi Paul. I read about this case its shocking he should have been jailed for life. But as always money seems to let toomany get away without justice being done. Such a wicked loss of life! Thank you for liking ‘No Christmas!’ Best Wishes. The Foureyed Poet.
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and the judge should be sanctioned
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Unbelievable! That judge should be taken out off the bench and the teenager should be given real consequences. So tragic…tragic for all those who lost their lives and their families…tragic for society…
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amen
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I also think HIS parents should be sent to jail!
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I like that idea
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I’ve got a friend from high school who lost his father in a DUI.
When he read this, his exact reply was “the SOB should’ve had the honor to die in the accident as well.”
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I completely understand that viewpoint.
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we had a case here which normally gets at least 5 years but after sentencing the PA got a phone call from somebody and he changed the sentence to nothing for some odd reasons. Well the father of the 20 year old runs a branch of GEICO with 5000 employees. elections are coming up you know.
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it’s enough to drive a law-abiding citizen insane
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Texas will be Texas. Trust me, I grew up there. Now in Cali.
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hopefully such travesty doesn’t catch on elsewhere
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Oh but I think it has. Florida has a little bit of crap like that.
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