An 18 year old girl was killed by a texting drunk driver. He was just acquitted. He is rich.

[liberalhistorian]

142. I attend graduate school in Minneapolis during the week,

though I live in a neighboring state, and the Senser case is the first thing I thought of when I read this. It still boggles my mind that so many people actually believe the drunken, sotted-up spoiled rich bitch that she didn't know she'd hit a person (hubby is some former Minnesota Vikings mucky-muck, why the fuck that should matter to people is beyond me). There is NO FUCKING WAY that she didn't know that, NO WAY. Then again, she was probably drunk and high on pills out of her mind, so who the hell knows. At least she didn't entirely get away with it. She also, like this doctor, deleted texts, didn't come forward as the driver for ten days, and even (and this is truly sickening) tried to blame her stepdaughter and make police and people think her stepdaughter was the driver. They didn't even have to pay anything out of pocket in the civil suit the family filed against them that was just settled, their auto insurance took care of that. Just today, the judge denied defense motions for new trials and to throw out the verdict, and Joe Senser yelled "you're next, Ballentine" at the attorney representing the family in the civil suit. NO recognition as to the fact that she actually took a life, a 3o-something immigrant Thai cook, NO recognition of what the family must be going through (fuck whatever she's "going through"!), NO expression of remorse, etc., etc.

And now this case. Unbelievable. Having worked in the legal field for years, I laugh my ass off when people claim to trust in the integrity of jurors and the justice system, that jurors will always "do the right thing". BULL. SHIT. You NEVER know what jurors are going to do, they've let many a guilty person go and convicted many an innocent person. NEVER fully trust in either juries or the judicial system. If you don't think wealth, position and power and status matter, then you live in PollyannaWorld. Had either the doctor in this case or Amy Senser been Joe and Jane Shmoe from Nowhere, you'd better believe they'd have had a lot harder time of it.

The poor family of this girl should sue this fucking doctor for every goddamn cent he has. He'll have a lot harder time of it in civil court, since the standard of proof is far lower in civil than criminal court.