Gaudreau Brothers Negligent Homicide (OT)

[bkeich]

If you are driving along and see the car in front of you swerve to the left, so you “decide” to swerve right, but stay on the road as you say, you will hit something EVERY time. The car in front of you swerved for a reason.

But, that doesn’t matter, because that isn’t his story

He was trying to pass (illegally) and when the car in front of him (he thought) tried to block him he took the insane move of trying to blow by him on the wrong (wildly illegal) side.

And for all you know, it could have been to avoid a skunk. He interpreted it as the driver trying to stop him from passing. We have the advantage of knowing details after the fact.

He obviously deserves a harsh punishment, but I don't think life is correct.

Fair enough. Mine is the minority opinion obviously just from the responses here.

Just glad for all of this that it is a discussion for us and not having to deal with the ramifications of this sad event. I hope the young lady can have her wedding quietly one day, I doubt it will actually be a happy wedding no matter what, hopefully a happy marriage instead.

[zambonir]

Well, that's a pretty strong penalty for now, even if it ends up counting as time served. I guess they also can't actually suspend or revoke his license until he's convicted, so that's a big part of the argument for keeping him in custody (though you would think not driving could have been a condition of bail. Shows they are treating this as seriously and as much like a regular homicide as they can though).

Judge rules man charged in Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau’s deaths will remain in...

[zambonir]

Well, the grand jury saw it more harshly

Man accused in deaths of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau facing more serious...

Sean M. Higgins, 44, is now facing two counts of first-degree aggravated manslaughter, as well as two previous counts of second-degree reckless vehicular homicide. The grand jury also indicted Higgins on a charge of tampering with physical evidence (fourth degree) and leaving the scene of a fatal accident (second degree).

The aggravated manslaughter charges could result in a lengthy prison sentence upon conviction, with a maximum of 30 years on each count. Vehicular homicide carries a maximum of 10 years per count.