{"id":161520751,"date":"2010-02-13T10:52:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T10:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161520751"},"modified":"2010-02-13T10:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T10:52:31","slug":"this-court-outcome-is-considered-a-joke-but-it-is-far-more-severe-then-whatever-could-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161520751","title":{"rendered":"This court outcome is considered a joke but  it is far more severe then whatever could happen here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, 21 year old Tressa Russell ran over 66 year old Stanly Brown (February 11, 2009) when she drove away from a pizzeria.  Last week she was sentenced to 3 years of probation, 240 hours of community service and a fine of $5,400.00.  What bothers me is not the lack of incarceration but her utter deficient humanity, oh yeah I didn\u2019t mention, she thought she hit a pothole so she kept on driving.  She only returned to the scene after she called a friend who told her there were police and ambulances where she said she hit that pothole.<br \/>\nLink to the story from the Albany Times Union : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=896427\">https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=896427<\/a><br \/>\nIn an exact quote from her statement printed by the Albany Times Union, she plead guilty primarily, \u201cso I could get my car back and to make the victim\u2019s sisters happy for the loss of their brother.\u201d<br \/>\nThe article continued, \u201cThe defendant (Tressa Russell) appears to be more upset about the loss of her car and license than the loss of the life of the victim, Stanley Brown.\u201d<br \/>\nIn court, Russell\u2019s attorney, Joseph McCoy, said his client was remorseful. He said his client\u2019s decision to leave the scene in no way contributed to the victim\u2019s death.<br \/>\nJust hitting Stanley with her car contributed to him dying.<br \/>\nI hope that our cultural apathy takes a break when hearing story\u2019s like this, until that happens I\u2019m going to continue talking about it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/?p=310\">https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/?p=310<\/a>oldId.20100213105231998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, 21 year old Tressa Russell ran over 66 year old Stanly Brown (February 11, 2009) when she drove away from a pizzeria. Last week she was sentenced to 3 years of probation, 240 hours of community service and a fine of $5,400.00. What bothers me is not the lack of incarceration but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161520751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This court outcome is considered a joke but  it is far more severe then whatever could happen here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161520751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161520751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161520751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161520751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161520751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161520751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161520751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}