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Laura ([personal profile] kyrielle) wrote2002-03-08 02:05 pm
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Return of the "how could she" article.

Followup article. How could she? Why, because "She was simply a frightened, emotionally distraught young woman who had an accident, panicked, and made a wrong choice."

Her attorney says that like her "wrong choice" took only a matter of minutes, not hours. Like she couldn't have recovered from it, had no time for second guessing, etc.

Ummm.

Okay. This is still an article about someone dying because of someone else, it's still cold, and it's still "how COULD she?" But now, they're trying to make it seem like she's also a victim in this. Ummm.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020308/ap_on_re_us/hit_and_run_death_7
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[identity profile] lady-of-mists.livejournal.com 2002-03-08 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been following this story since I caught it in a news blurb recently. It is horribly, horribly sick. If the prosecutor even remotely considers her with charging her with less than murder, I will be very angry. To think of someone being left to bleed to death is abhorrent and against all concepts of human decency. A nurse's aide even! Someone that is supposed to be taking care of us... she was afraid of being caught and sued for harming a person so she killed them.

Everytime that I hear something like this, I'm reminded just a little bit more of how depraved humanity has become.

Ariana

[identity profile] pheon.livejournal.com 2002-03-08 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I see no way she is a victim in this. The guy who died was the victim; she is a murderer. "Wrong choice" my ass!
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[personal profile] kyrielle 2002-03-08 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly! The whole idea of casting her as victimized in this is just...ugh.

[identity profile] pheon.livejournal.com 2002-03-10 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting take on this by a lawyer (who starts out saying "Sometimes I can?t understand why some of my fellow attorneys talk to the media") at http://sneakingsuspicions.com/a0303092002.htm#030902 You may have to scroll down a little.

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[personal profile] kyrielle 2002-03-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Good for that lawyer. Blah. I mean, if it had been an ordinary "failure to render aid" (given how long he lived), it's very likely some other passer-by could have helped him.

Shutting a badly injured man -in your garage- and refusing to help him, after -you- hit him, is -way- beyond "failure to render aid".
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