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Originally Posted by patteeu
When the range of possible sentences is 0 to 5 years and you want to peg it at 5, you're enhancing it. I've read your rationalizations where you try to claim that you're ignoring the kid's suicide, but I don't believe them.
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Naive question to you or any other lawyers in this discussion:
If there were multiple fouls, is there an interplay on sentencing? So from a legal perspective, would a drunk driver get a more harsh sentence for the drunk driving crime if he killed someone? Or would he get the same sentence, but then he also gets an independent sentence for manslaughter? I'm going to guess that each crime is independent, but I vaguely recall hearing news blips about sentences for "X crime resulting in Y outcome".