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DaveDragon
Aug 1st, 2008, 9:39 am
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-bellwood-reckless-homicide-web-aug01,0,4883393.story
SilverBuffalo
Aug 1st, 2008, 9:53 am
Judge Elizabeth Sexton set Griffin's bond at $750,000 WTF? Not to "minimize" the loss of a fellow biker but......
there's the "real" outrage, bond for a cold blooded killer?
rspyder
Aug 1st, 2008, 12:25 pm
he should be turned over to the guy with knife on the Greyhound bus. In CA he would have strike 3 and be permanently off the streets.
cfell
Aug 1st, 2008, 3:24 pm
yup... too bad he wasn't an elected official, could have gotten the bond reduced....
Wolfgang
Aug 1st, 2008, 3:25 pm
Help me understand, please!

If that is not cold blooded murder I don't know what is. All he faces is 14 years?
There are people in prison for 10 years for multiple minor drug convictions. Were is the relativity?

I just don't get it.
RTTommy
Aug 1st, 2008, 3:50 pm
This explains it all:

http://www.bmwlt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38812

Only in America.
Briantime
Aug 1st, 2008, 5:39 pm
Wow!

I suppose it goes without saying, but NEVER chase somebody and confront them in a situation like this. Very sad ending to a very poor decision.
JCabranes
Aug 1st, 2008, 7:02 pm
That is Illinois so they only need to post 10% of the bond. So bond in reality is $75k.
Wolfgang
Aug 1st, 2008, 7:08 pm
Wow!

I suppose it goes without saying, but NEVER chase somebody and confront them in a situation like this. Very sad ending to a very poor decision.

This is like saying: If she would not have worn the mini skirt she would not have been raped. Besides that, I agree that confrontations on the road are best avoided. Still, 14 years??? Thats just not enough...
Morley
Aug 1st, 2008, 8:22 pm
How about a good old fashioned public stoning?
omurphy
Aug 1st, 2008, 9:03 pm
14 years wouldn't be enough.
Briantime
Aug 1st, 2008, 10:45 pm
This is like saying: If she would not have worn the mini skirt she would not have been raped. Besides that, I agree that confrontations on the road are best avoided. Still, 14 years??? Thats just not enough...


No...it's like saying "Don't chase someone in a situation like this" Did not mean to, nor think I implied he deserved it.

Merely trying to take a lesson from this tragedy...way too many people think with their cajones.
rlv
Aug 2nd, 2008, 6:25 am
10% of the bond, now that's not bad.
How about we all pool our money together and get this guy out of there.
nightcrawler921
Aug 2nd, 2008, 8:20 am
10% of the bond, now that's not bad.
How about we all pool our money together and get this guy out of there.
So we can run him over?:D
gglove
Aug 2nd, 2008, 8:30 am
Good old Illinois, WTF. Reckless how about deliberate homicide.

Perhaps we should give him free insurance, driving lessons, child care classes, sensitivity training, etc! to rehabilitate him to send him out to kill again.

WTF
Rockdoc
Aug 2nd, 2008, 10:07 am
That's just a terrible story. It's a tragedy for the motorcyclist and his family but how much more must the hurt have been magnified by the crass decision of the court to let this lunatic out on the streets? It's a ringing certainty that he'll keep driving because he's done it before.

I can't really see how the charge he's facing isn't far worse. The UK definition of murder is causing death after pre-meditation and I'd guess the US one would be similar. Driving over someone with a car certainly seems pre-meditated to me. You can't really drive anything directly at a pedestrian and not expect to cause serious harm and it looks very much to me as if that was the intention. So why the lesser charge?

Keith