http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080220/NEWS01/802200357/-1/CINCI
Man gets 8 years for 19 DUIs
Judge lectures driver; suspends license forever
BY JANICE MORSE | JMORSE@ENQUIRER.COM
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HAMILTON – A Hamilton man’s 19th drunken driving conviction earned him eight years in prison and a lecture about his 30-year record, which ranks him among Ohio’s six worst drunken drivers.
“You knew a long time ago that you had a problem with drinking and driving and you’ve never chosen to do anything,” Judge Noah Powers told Stephen W. Wolf in Butler County Common Pleas Court during sentencing Tuesday.
Wolf faced up to 10 years in prison as a result of a hit-and-run crash in Fairfield Township last summer.
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My only two questions are: (A) why didn’t he get the ten year max? and (B) Nineteen convictions? What a joke.
I’ll be asking my statecritters how bad the problem is here. Ohio might have two with 20, but I’m sure NuJerzee, the home of many bleeding heart liberals, must have more.
Argh!
I’d say one conviction is a mistake as long as no one is hurt. More than that is unacceptable. Multiple convictions, or conviction with an injury resulting, deserves the full Monte.
The “state”, meaning gooferment in general, has really only one purpose Constitutionally and that is to protect individual rights. If it can’t do that, then it has lost its reason for existence.
I’ve seen formulations that say we don’t have a “drinking and driving” problem, but we do have a problem with repeat offenders. So, let’s strike at the root.
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