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Originally Posted by scooter
I say literally. I think DUI should be second strike you get your license privileges revoked permanently. Any offense after that you should be put in prison.
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they have the three strikes law about felonies. they should also have a three strikes law about your license. as in the third offense of the same type and you lose it forever. they really have to get tough with these drunk drivers. right now, driving drunk with all of the fines, etc., really amounts to a slap on the wrist. and any good lawyer can get a deal so that either it doesn't show up as a DUI or it doesn't show which time it is (second, third, etc).
you can also fault the judges and their laziness in not requiring a driver abstract every time a DUI case comes before them. it is so easy for judges to order that the driver abstract be in court (just like the cop has to be there). but either laziness or ineptitude keeps people like this on the road because then the judge doesn't have the abstract in front of him to hold this type of person responsible for his multiple (beyond the scope of the law, even! ) DUI convictions. and you can bet either this guy or his lawyer is not going to offer that kind of information up and if asked about it he will either claim ignorance to the prior offenses or bold faced lie about it.
unfortunately, no law is going to keep him from driving on the revoked list. the only thing that will cure him of that is some time in prison (more than 364 days) or a bullet to the grill. it sounds like this guy will be doing some hard time, now that it has been on the news wire. certain people will get a hold of this information and use it to bolster their argument.