If you're going to get all liquored up on Val-U-Rite and then go homicidally joyriding, Grand County is the place to do it.  If you get an average sentence, you won't even spend a month in jail.

That Denver case where a guy got 48 years?  He was driving drunk and ran a red light after spending the evening at a strip club, had a criminal record for assault and failing to pay for child support and had a previous arrest for domestic violence.  He left the scene of the accident without even slowing down after running over a family of four including two children who were wearing their Halloween costumes from a couple of weeks prior, despite admitting that he was aware at the time that he hit someone, and continued to attempt to conceal involvement in the accident after he sobered up.  He hit the family so hard that he threw the kids 50 feet.  Only the father survived.



The mom was a nurse who, prior to staying home with her kids, had worked in a children's oncology unit and volunteered with an animal shelter.  They were both very active in their church and had met through a Christian-organized bicycle ride.

That's how fucking evil you have to be to get a reasonable sentence for DUI in Colorado.

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