Life Sentence For Drunk Driver

Canuck Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:16 pm

I hoped they would make him a dangerous offender for this too.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090909/national/drunk_dangerous_offender

SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Que. - It's not the sentence they were looking for, but Crown prosecutors say a legal precedent was still set Wednesday.
A Canadian court has, for the first time ever, sentenced a drunk driver to life in prison, said Crown lawyer Joey Dubois.
Roger Walsh, 57, was handed the ruling in a courtroom west of Montreal. He pleaded guilty to mowing down a wheelchair-bound woman last year after a night of binge drinking.
It was his 19th drunk-driving conviction.
Quebec court judge Michel Mercier declared the man incorrigible and said he would be likely to reoffend.

Pez Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:25 pm

Wow... you would think maybe after, say, the 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th drunk driving conviction he would be imprisoned for life... 19 is amazing... and he was 57 Years old... averaging a drunk driving conviction every 2 years....