Iowa Still Soft On Drunk Drivers Who Kill

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From the Iowa City Press-Citizen:

An Iowa City man arrested for vehicular homicide following a 2002 car crash near Solon that killed his infant son is expected to plead guilty next month to lesser charges, lawyers in the case said Thursday.

As part of a plea agreement, Marvin Rivera-Fuentes, 32, of 5 Arbandy Drive, will plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, driving while barred and second-offense drunken driving. A plea hearing has been set for Sept. 21 in Johnson County District Court.

In addition, Rivera-Fuentes will plead guilty to third-offense drunken driving and tampering with records charges from separate incidents in 2004 and earlier this year, prosecutor Anne Lahey and defense lawyer David Burbidge of Iowa City said.

Rivera-Fuentes would have faced up to 25 years in prison on the vehicular homicide charge. He now faces a total 11 years in prison...

...Rivera-Fuentes had been arrested twice for drunken driving after the fatal crash.

Chop his hands off so that he can't drive a car ever again.

This clown will be out in 3 or 4 years. You just know it. The parole board will be kissing his ass and saying he's not a threat to society.

Multiple offense drunk drivers are one of the biggest threats to society!

Meanwhile, Dixie Shanahan Duty, who killed her notoriously violent husband after he threatened to kill her and her unborn baby, is serving her 50 years and taking abuse from the bitches on the Iowa Parole Board.


Update: So if you drive drunk, crash your car into another on the highway, injure people, wreck property, kill your child, get busted two more times in the following years for drunk driving, and tamper with evidence, then you get sentenced to 11 years in prison. But if you're a 50 year old man and fondle a 13 year old girl, you could face 10 years in prison.

I'm not belittling the three degree sexual abuse charge against the old creep, but Marvin Rivera-Fuentes got a ridiculously light sentence in light of what he did.