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From: Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS on 29 Mar 2007 01:50 Mexican kills 3 people by his drunk driving and then evades the cops for 10 years and when he is convicted, 60 people including family of the victims, show up to beg for leniency and that's what he gets!! This is how mexicans are. To them highway homicide is always just an accident. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/308862_sentencing24.html?source=rss Last updated March 23, 2007 10:51 p.m. PT Driver in fatal car crash gets 3 1/2 years Friends and family of 3 killed in accident ask for leniency By LEVI PULKKINEN - P-I REPORTER More than 60 people packed a Seattle courtroom Friday to ask for leniency for Edilberto Martinez-Cardenas, the man who in 1993 killed three friends in a drunken driving crash. He was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison -- less than he could have received. A jury convicted Martinez-Cardenas last month of three counts of vehicular homicide. (snip) Although Martinez-Cardenas kept a high profile in Seattle's Latino community, he managed to avoid police for more than a decade after he had been charged. Those in the courtroom crowd -- including friends and family of the three dead men -- spoke of a different man, one who had found religion and responsibility. Speaking to Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell, Victoria Figueroa said she has no ill will toward Martinez-Cardenas for causing her father's death. Instead of retribution, Figueroa asked Ramsdell for compassion. (snip) |