We’ll know if they don’t bring murder 2 into play.

If that’s the case they’ll probably be willing to work at the high end of the reckless homicide range - maybe in the 5 year range.

But if they want to hammer this guy, they absolutely can. What’s Ruggs leverage here? Where are there even mitigating factors for asking for the low end of the sentence?

If the DA comes in and says ‘10 years is as low as I’ll go’ you really think Ruggs lawyers are gonna slam their binders shut and say ‘we’ll see you in court!!!’

They have nothing for leverage here. This one is real REAL bad. All they can do is lean into the first time offender aspect but the heinous nature of the behavior and the ghastly consequences means that can only do so much work.

There are so many people with hearts of gold who are stuck living with significant disabilities.

Then you have guys like this who are beyond blessed with otherworldly talent.

Life really isn’t fair.

I thought no prior record and remorse usually knocks considerable time? Especially with higher profile people

I've been at 140 in a 1958 Delray and am still thankful those shitty brakes never failed me. I'd never consider breaking 100 again, honestly. No point, and shit starts getting a bit sketch anyhow. I certainly didn't do it in a residential zone. 65 mph highway.

This guy, I mean there isn't any sense for either thing he did wrong much less in combination. 156 in a 25? Like who does that... ever? Much less drunk...

Makes sense. I really put nothing past lawyers to find ways to place blame elsewhere and what not, but everything about this one is extreme or at least very definitive.

So. It's open and shut. He did it. This girl and her dog burned alive because of what he did.

They need to drag this dumb mother****er out into the street, coat this asshole in Gasoline/Styrofoam gel, and hand Tina's father a Zippo.

Let him experience every last agonizing second of what he did to her.

Not even trying to be funny, but damn you gotta hand it to those Chevy engineers... two passengers walked away from THAT

She clearly seen them flying up on her, and just froze to let them go around... but at those speeds he had no chance whatsoever to swerve around her on those narrower residential streets

Its just hard to wrap ones head around pointless idiocy like this

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tina Tintor, the 23 year old lady Henry Ruggs killed while driving drunk at 156 mph. <br><br>Say her name! <br><br>RIP Tina. <a href="https://t.co/gVvTM75UWo">pic.twitter.com/gVvTM75UWo</a></p>&mdash; Roger (@Roger__007) <a href="https://twitter.com/Roger__007/status/1456049224957800448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Reading the police report, it was a 3-lane road, and I think she was in the right lane at normal speed, he was in the middle lane (to her back/left) flying up, and he lost control and veered into the right lane hitting her from behind at 150+ mph. Dude just totally lost control bc he was ****ed up.

I hope for her sake that she was unconscious or already gone by the time the car caught on fire. :(

If he was going that fast, I bet she never even had a chance to react. She may have never even seen him coming if she wasn't looking in the rear view mirror at the right moment.

I also wonder if she could have just turned onto the roadway. You'd have no expectation that someone would be approaching at that speed.

I know a guy who used to do accident reconstruction for a law enforcement agency. He told me that he once had to check out a case where two motorcyclists died after hitting the back of an SUV. The initial thinking was that the woman didn't see the motorcyclists and pulled in front of them. But after looking at the damage and the setting, they figured out that the motorcyclists were going at an insane speed. The woman pulled out at a time that would've been safe, but they were going so fast that they flew up onto her and hit her. The agency determined that the woman was not at fault at all.

Damn

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Derek Carr on Henry Ruggs: <br>“He needs people to love him right now. He’s probably feeling a certain type of way about himself right now and he needs to be loved. If nobody else will do it, I’ll do it.”</p>&mdash; Vic Tafur (@VicTafur) <a href="https://twitter.com/VicTafur/status/1456062859570413570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It's all yours, Derek. No one else has any interest in doing it.

I wonder how many stoplights he had to go through while getting up to speed at 156 mph?

Sorry, I just have no love to give to Ruggs.