The country is still in a righteous moral outrage about Michael Vick's crimes that he has served time for in jail and is going to finish serving time for at his home under house arrest. Today, I read that Donte Stallworth is going to spend 30 days in jail for the killing of a human being. Now, before PETA and all the little PETA-files get on their high horses again, I want to say that Vick was horribly wrong and misguided in what he did, but he did pay for it dearly. That said Stallworth killed someone because of his lack of judgment. He drank all night (presumably) and decided to get behind the wheel of a car and drive home. That choice alone poses a threat to so many people for the entire length of time he's on the road. As you all know, he ended up hitting and killing Mario Reyes. His family lost a father, husband, brother, son, and friend.
His pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter was somehow not technically a conviction? WHAT? Are you kidding me?
What's the difference between him saying he killed someone due to driving drunk and a jury and/or judge saying he killed someone because he was driving drunk? 30 days behind bars for the life of a human being is not even a slap on the wrist. It's not even 20 minutes standing in the corner. According to cbssporsline.com "Stallworth also reached a confidential financial settlement with the Reyes' family. A person close to the negotiations told The Association Press about the agreement on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the deal." I don't want to speculate as to how much the settlement was. I'm sure it was in the millions of dollars.
I'm also sure that the Reyes family could have pursued a civil suit in addition to a criminal trial. Perhaps they are just good people who didn't want to take this out of proportion with a long drawn out trial. I certainly don't think they are greedy people who were just out for money. There are folks out there who prefer to keep things low key, but I didn't realize you could still grease the wheels of justice with celebrity and cash to such a level in this day and age of instant information. Plaxico Burress wishes he could pull this same kind of deal. And nobody died as a result of his crime. Perhaps this is just a new standard being set. After all, Leonard Little committed the same crime and received the same punishment. 30 days for a human life when it's taken by a drunken celebrity or athlete behind the wheel. That's a sad precedent to be setting.
I guess just as some people say that guns don't kill people, maybe the drunk drivers don't kill people. It's the cars they are driving that kill people, they are the real criminals. Okay, enough cynicism. Donte Stallworth is probably extremely remorseful and regretful for getting behind the wheel drunk. If he could do it all over again, I'm sure he'd take a cab. In the grand scheme of things, a lot of people who's poor judgment led to harming someone would have done things differently if given a 2nd chance. I just can't believe that 30 days and 1000 hours of community service is what a human life is worth these days.
By: Ezekiel Akwei
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