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"An unusual sentence aims to make a killer remember his victim"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting and moving article from the St. Petersburg Times.  Here are excerpts: The call came at 8 p.m.  A 19-year-old driving a Honda Civic had lost control and gone off the road.  He over-corrected, the state trooper said, and smashed into Thomas [Tower] Jr.'s car.  The impact ejected Thomas Jr., who fell into a field. "By the time we got there, he was gone," [his father] said.  Thomas Jr. was 28.  The other driver, Andrew Gaudioso, was airlifted to a hospital where he spent four months in a coma.  "We waited," Towers said.  "But that kid was never charged." Six months later, after Gaudioso was released from the hospital, Towers drove to the highway patrol station and demanded to see the wreck report...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 13, 2010 (boomark / email).