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Sat May 17, 2014, 05:01 PM May 2014

Protesters angry drunken Ferrari driver got work release sentence [View all]

About 25 people protested Friday outside the courthouse where an Olympia man was sentenced to a year of work release for leading police on a drunken chase through downtown Olympia in his Ferrari last year.

Some of the protesters said they believe that the defendant, Shaun Goodman, who pleaded guilty to DUI and felony eluding in connection with the case, was treated too leniently by the judge and prosecutor in the case.

"It's not fair that there's a two-tiered legal system, one for those with money and another for those without," Sam Miller, one of the organizers of the protest, said Friday.

While Goodman's case was pending in January, a judge signed an order modifying Goodman's conditions of release so he could fly out to New Jersey and watch the Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2014/05/16/3136306/protesters-angry-drunken-ferrari.html?sp=/99/101/#storylink=cpy

Another victim of Affluenza. He had 6 prior DUI's…..

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