This woman came before the system twice with a drinking problem. Twice the system had a chance to punish her, to mandate counseling, to take away her license. Twice, they took the easy way out and pushed her case along with the overwhelming tide of criminal matters they were handling. Pay a fine and be on your way. If the record of this defendant is enough to establish her malice when she barreled down the highway on April 6 last year, why was that same record not sufficient to set off alarms within a professional office supposedly trained to recognize the need for intervention.
Laws are there to help prevent such tragedy, but only if they are used.
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