4 months was the minimum the jury could award.
She is rich, caucasian and the daughter of a judge. She is being allowed to finish college before starting prison. Alot of people in town think she got preferential treatment. However, the parents of the dead boyfriend took the stand and did ask the jury for lienence for the girl. Had she killed someone in another car it might have been alot different.
She will go to a local county jail, like Paris and will get time off for good beheavor, so she may spend actual less time behind bars that Paris did.
Oh, the day before yesterday an african american man was released here in Houston for serving 14 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit. DNA cleared him. A man already behind bars for rape, who at the time lived a block from the victim was identified as the real rapist. A private group retested the evidence for the jailed man, and found the Houston CSI mistake. We have had alot of problems in the past with our CSI group, faking tests was one of their trademarks. It didnt help that the victim positively identified the guy, even though it was at night and was dark.
Apparently the CSI group was busy and if the police said we have a positive ID or this is the guy, they would fake the tests to show, the police got the right guy. Remember all this if your ever on a jury.
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