Poll: Should mom Raquel Nelson be sentenced to 3 years in prison because of jaywalking death of 4 year old son?

Should a mom whom jaywalked with her kids at night after being dropped off by a bus across the street from her house resulted in one of her kids being hit by car and killed by a drunk driver be sentenced to three years in prison because of the jaywalking? The actual conviction is for homicide by vehicle and reckless conduct.  The nearest cross walk was more than 1500 feet from the bus stop.

The sentence she might get is longer then what the drunk driver received.

If you want to support her you can sign a petition here:

http://www.change.org/petitions/cobb-county-ga-release-grieving-mother-of-hit-and-run-install-a-crosswalk

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Source:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mom-convicted-son-jaywalking-death-never-end-151356884.html

Mom convicted in son’s jaywalking

death: ‘This will never end for me’

By Liz Goodwin

National Affairs Reporter

By Liz Goodwin

 

Nelson (Today Show)

A Marietta, Ga., mom who was convicted of jaywalking after her 4-year-old son was run over and killed in a hit-and-run said on the Today Show

that the worst part of going to jail would be the separation from her two remaining kids.

Raquel Nelson was convicted of homicide by vehicle and reckless conduct by a jury and faces sentencing tomorrow. She can receive up to a three-year jail sentence, six times the stretch that Jerry Guy–who admitted to drinking before running over Nelson’s son, A.J.–served.

“I think to come after me so much harder than they did him is a slap in the face because this will never end for me,” she said. “It’s three years away from the two that I have left.”

Nelson also said that the jury had “never been in my shoes,” because each of them answered that they had never taken public transportation before. Nelson, who doesn’t have a car, was three-tenths of a mile away from the nearest crosswalk when her bus dropped her off at the stop across the street from her apartment with her three children. She decided to cross with her kids rather than remain outside any later at night, she said. (You can read more about her case here.)

“We are just hoping as a family that [the judge] is compassionate and lets my niece remain with her other children,” Nelson’s aunt Loretta Williams said. Nearly 75,000 have signed an online petition in support of Nelson

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You can watch the interview below:

http://www.hulu.com/yahoo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Fwatch%2F261495%2Fnbc-today-show-mom-could-face-jail-after-son-dies-jaywalking-/embed/KYLEZ1MA17xnswjkAToX5w/i65

Poll: Do you believe British tabloid News of the World hacked missing British schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s voicemail?

Missing 13 year old British Schoolgirl Milly Dowler

I am seeking your opinion in my poll about whether you believe British tabloid News of the World superiors were aware their reporter or other employees hacked into missing British schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s voicemail or do you believe it was a rogue reporter responsible for the hacking? If you would like to read about this incident more can be found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/world/europe/05britain.html

An excerpt from the New York Times article mentioned prior:

The voice-mail account of a British schoolgirl who went missing in 2002 and whose murdered body was discovered six months later was knew what had happened to her, a lawyer for her family said Monday. According to the lawyer, Mark Lewis, the newspaper not only intercepted  messages left on the phone of the girl, Milly Dowler, 13, by her  increasingly frantic family after her disappearance, but also deleted  some of those messages when her voice mailbox became full — thus making  room for new ones and listening to those in turn. This confused  investigators and gave false hope to Milly’s relatives, who believed it showed she was still alive and deleting the messages herself, Mr. Lewis said.

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Poll: Is there to much hype over the British Royal Couple?

Prince William and Duchess Catherine Middleton

I would like your opinion on whether there is to much hype over the British Royal Couple (Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge).  Especially if looked at from the perspective of news coverage and the concern of people not being focused on more serious matters from the U.S. economy, world economy, wars, foreclosures, garbage in oceans, global warming, oil prices, alternate fuel sources, impending oil shortage, overpopulation, famines, droughts, entire neighborhoods and regions being abandoned in the U.S., national debt, rising ocean levels, etc.

I understand the interest in the British Royal Couple since everyone loved Princess Diana and wants the best for Prince William and also the fact the wedding between William and Kate reminded them of Princess Diana’s wedding. Also the U.S. just has an interest in royalty for some odd reason probably because of the fairy tale aspect. But there are more important matters in the world besides the British Royal Couple.  One being the source of the Queen’s wealth is one that stands out.

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