Ex-banker gets 2-3 for 7th DUI (newest victim almost died twice)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110629/NEWS97/110629616/-1#ex-banker-gets-2-3-for-7th-dui

Photo: http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=20110629&Category=NEWS97&ArtNo=110629616&Ref=AR&maxw=490&maxh=275
Mark Dahir

Published Wednesday June 29, 2011

Steven Murray hadn't planned to speak Wednesday, hadn't planned to do anything but let his letter to the judge do the talking.

Then he listened to the impaired driver who hit him -- Mark Dahir -- talk about missing his 3-year-old daughter. He listened to Dahir's attorney, Steve Lefler, talk about how Dahir was the victim of a “public lynching” a thirst to see the “little rich kid get his due.”

With that, the slender, middle-age man crawled over three people in the second row and spoke pointedly but not angrily.

He spoke of the life changes he suffered on his way to work on Feb. 15, when he was hit head-on by Dahir, a serial impaired driver who was under the influence of methamphetamine.

He told the judge of how his four children, ages 7 to 19, almost lost their father twice during the massive wreck and when blood clots later traveled to his lungs.

He urged the judge to sentence Dahir to the maximum term for Dahir's seventh DUI: Five years in prison.

He then listened as Douglas County District Judge Patrick Mullen sentenced Dahir, 36, to 2 to 3 years in prison. Under state sentencing guidelines, Dahir, who has been in jail since late February, will be eligible for parole in a year.

FULL story at link.

[fascisthunter]

1. another example of injustice and the American Double Standard

[XemaSab]

2. First DUI: community service

Second DUI: prison

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. kick

[Omaha Steve]

4. Kick

[CBGLuthier]

5. JackAss

In honor of that other fuck I propose calling all these selfish assholes jackasses for the next year.

[Aerows]

6. Wow

In Florida, if you get one DUI, you have to go through classes and usually counseling, and lose access to the car involved in the incident for 10 days, and your license except to go to and from work for at least 3 months. For a second, you spend 10 days in jail mandatory. I think the third is a felony, and there are all sorts of ramifications like losing your license for many years.

In the article, they also sentenced a woman for her 8th DUI. What in the hell is wrong with Nebraska? In several other states, this guy (and that woman) wouldn't have gotten the opportunity for a fourth or a fifth because they would be in jail. Florida is pretty harsh with their laws, but once you get one DUI in Florida, you really don't EVER want another one, and you certainly don't after the second one.

This guy should have served serious time on number 3 or 4.

[Blue_Tires]

7. We just had this yesterday in Va.

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/sailor-found-not-guilty-2009-car-crash-killed-two

And the Commonwealth has long been a "tough on crime" fetishist's dream...A shame he wasn't Mexican -- He would have gotten the death penalty THEN his corpse would have been deported...

There was also another case in the D.C. suburbs I was keeping track of, but I can't find it now...

[blueamy66]

8. How about some therapy too?

nt

[Eyerish]

9. K&R