The Guilty Set Free To Drive Drunk Yet Again

I recently saw a flyer put out by a law firm which apparently specializes in d.u.i. cases. The flyer listed quite a number of cases they had recently represented, and seemed to be bragging about the results.

I was appalled. None of these people were presented as having been falsely accused of driving under the influence. All of them had their blood alcohol percentages listed, and they were 2 or 3 or even 4 times over the legal limit. One was driving down the wrong side of the road. Some were driving with children in the car, and one child was not in a car seat. For almost all of them this arrest was not their first offense.

Every single one of these people is back out on the roads with you and me. Not a single one of them lost their license. (I have heard that doesn’t stop them from driving anyway, but that’s another issue.) Not a single one of them went to jail. Only two were supposed to take any kind of rehab or counseling.

As these people have already demonstrated that they will continue to drive drunk, even after having been arrested, that this law firm got them off the hook again means they will drive drunk again. They haven’t suffered any negative consequences, so why not? They obviously don’t care about you or me or their passengers or anybody else.

The law firm and others like it are a significant part of the problem. Because of how our legal system has evolved, they are not doing their job of defending their clients if they don’t move heaven and earth to get the clients off the hook. It does not seem to matter that the client is guilty as charged, or that the client will go right back out and endanger the community again.

Do you see anything wrong with this picture? I sure as heck do. Justice is not served when the guilty are turned loose without consequence to endanger the community over and over.