[The police] identified an 18-year-old as the car’s owner. He was arrested on a warrant connected to a prior DUI charge from Denver.
What they didn’t get from the car’s owner was a confession…
“The story that was relayed to me was that the three people who were in the vehicle, all three claimed to have been too intoxicated to know who was driving,” said Johnson.
The 3 year statue of limitations was allowed to expire because the 18 year old car owner with a prior DUI claimed to be too drunk to remember if he was driving and his two friends said the same thing.
three claimed to have been too intoxicated to know who was driving
Then they can all share the same maximum punishment.
Reasonable sentence would be that they each serve 1/3rd of the “right sentence”, and 2 of them can decide/remember afterwards if only one should serve the full sentence.
It doesn’t work like that. You can’t just punish people without probable cause. America isn’t hasn’t turned that Fascist yet. You need to prove who was driving first before you can punish them. Without probable cause, there is no justice.
Lol, America has a long proud history of punishing a lot of people with much less probable causes than ‘the drunk DUI having car owner in his own car confirmed/confessed drunk at the time the car hit the cyclist was probably driving the car’.
Edit: Oh - you were prob replying for the case they would all share the punishment, my bad - I was trying to say that there is a probable cause one of them drove & that the system should have chosen (the most probable) one. It 100% would if it was a high-profile case.
Time to cancel the concept of the designated driver, the new best way to avoid a DUI is for everyone to be so shitfaced they don’t know who drove!
Well, they didn’t hurt a real person, merely a cyclist. So it’s not clear if an infraction has been committed.
Remember - if you want to murder someone, use a car.
Get stupid drunk and use someone else’s car, apparently. 🤢
In Colorado, aside from serious charges like murder or kidnapping, most felony charges have a three-year statute of limitations.
Well… That’s kinda crazy. I feel like a lot of investigations take longer than three years. Hell there’s places in the US that have like a decades worth of rape kits police are ignoring.
It’s almost like it’s by design
Except if the crime was done against the rich/powerful, then it all gets done in 3 years or much less, including the media outcry and even finding a scapegoat if need be.
The system is designed to not waste resources on non-rich vs non-rich crimes whilst also providing an additional option for when the rich are the perpetrators (in case it gets that far).
Do they want vigilantism?
yes. are there any people not docile enough to pursue vigilantism anywhere but on Facebook or Instagram? nope.
The big political news stories about the overt fascists taking over the United States rightly get all the attention, but stories like this indicate that American culture is rotten all the way down.
Hey, that’s offensive to yogurt.
