In Vegas recently, a woman got high on her prescription medication by taking more than her prescribed dose, drove her truck into a bus stop killing 3 kids and an adult woman, and didn't even get charged by the District Attorney.

In another case, an unlicensed driver eating his lunch while cruising down the street ramed into the back of a city truck, pinning the worker to the vehicle and cutting off both his legs. "Nothing we can do about!" said the authorities.

We saw this sort of thing happen so often that the Nevada State Legislature swung into action and wrote a new law. Now people can actually get 6 whole months for maiming or killing someone with their car! Yippee!

It reeks of it.  We have a case here in va that has not come to trial yet.  A Black Girl was behind the wheel.  I will pay closer attention to it to see.

Last year, one my sister's friends was killed in a car accident. The guy who hit her car was a 16 year old who was speeding and ran a stop sign. This young woman was at the start of her life: 19 years old and a freshman in college. He got a six month sentence to a type "boot camp" for juvenile offenders. Now, I know he is young, but my god, to have taken a life and received only a six month sentence?

That was injustice to me.

That was injustice to me.

Very true. An no mention of race. Perhaps we just cheapen vehicular homicide to the point that it no longer matters? Shades of Death Race 2000.

Sad, very Sad.

Perhaps we just cheapen vehicular homicide to the point that it no longer matters?

That could be it, but I recall a black man here a few months back who was sentenced to 5 years after a hit and run in which nobody died. Just makes me go hmmmmmmm

That could be it, but I recall a black man here a few months back who was sentenced to 5 years after a hit and run in which nobody died. Just makes me go hmmmmmmm

As it would most of us.  That is why I am very interested in this case up here. 

But even the worst, I suspect will be a couple years in jail and the rest on probation.  Same scenerio, except it is one, not 2 and the victim was 16.

First, you're confused about the crime involved. It was an accident. It did not involve alcohol, reckless driving, or anything that would make it vehicular homicide. Had she stopped, she would have been charged with nothing. So don't compare this case to cases of vehicular homicide. So you have a sheltered young woman who had never been in any kind of trouble, worked as a teacher all day, taught dance at night, and still lived at home with her parents. She panicked and left the scene. Why should she go to prison?

Then you have the kids' so-called mother. A woman with 5 kids and another on the way, multiple dads who are all deadbeats and mostly in prison, and she doesn't have a job. So what exactly was keeping her so busy that she couldn't take her sorry ass to the park and act like a mother for once? She's the one who belongs in prison.

Now a wonderful productive young woman has had her life destroyed by the irresponsibility of some nasty ghetto rat, and that ghetto rat is living ghetto fabulous in a $270,000 house complete with a tupak portrait above the couch. She was suing Florida Electric before the kids bodies were cold.

Sorry, but I think lisa wilkins is the real criminal. She need to repay all the taxpayer money that raised her kids. And imagine busting your ass to live in a nice gated community only to have that thing and her 25 bastard kids move in next door.

No, there is no confusion at all, except perhaps for you, anon poster. Your racist attitude is glaringly obvious. The fact is, hit and run is a felony regardless of what color your skin is, and this woman should have received prison time for committing said felony.

Yes, had she stopped, she may well have not been charged. The fact is, she didn't stop, she fled the scene thus committing a crime for which many people in this state and in this country have received serious prison time.

But of course, since the dead children happen to be black and from a poor family, it's ok. Right?

I have no idea why the race card applies here at all. What does hit and run and trying to destroy evidence have to do with race? Her accident took lives, but are those how cause accidents murderers? NO. Are they even criminals. NO.

Of course, leaving the scene made her a criminal and helping to destroy evidence made her father one. Yes, what amounts to 20 days of community service was pretty lenient for a felony, and I'm wondering why the father wasn't charged (or was he?). However, what purpose is served by taking either of them and making the taxpayers house, clothe and feed them. House arrest, and a significant amount of community service would be much more appropriate.

Unless it could be demonstrated that she meant to hit them because they were Black, what purpose is served with making a race issue out of a tragic accident?

#9 by ParaTed2k Friday, November 18, 2005

I understand your point, and normally the whole race thing really wouldn't enter into it at all except that here in Florida there is a track record of this sort of leniency based on race in our courts.

Believe me, I am usually the last one to ever cry racism, but this case is just so glaring that it has upset a lot of people. There have been many, many blacks and hispanics who have received pretty harsh prison sentences for much less.

Our local news station profiled one case in which a black man accidently hit and killed a white adult pedestrian. He remained at the scene to try and help, hadn't been drinking, hadn't been speeding as far as could be determined, and received 5 years prison time for involuntary manslaughter.

While it could be argued that prison time may not be appropriate for hit and run, I disagree. Especially when it involves a death. Race shouldn't be a factor, but at least here in Florida it does seem that your race has a bearing on your sentencing. I'm sure others factors may play some part, like how good a lawyer you can afford, but just as someone observing from the sidelines, that's the way it looks to me and a whole lot of other people here.

While it could be argued that prison time may not be appropriate for hit and run, I disagree. Especially when it involves a death. Race shouldn't be a factor, but at least here in Florida it does seem that your race has a bearing on your sentencing. I'm sure others factors may play some part, like how good a lawyer you can afford, but just as someone observing from the sidelines, that's the way it looks to me and a whole lot of other people here.

Yes, I lived in Florida back in High School. We were bussed to a school 12 miles away (when there were 3 High Schools closer). We averaged 4 race riots a year, some of which ended with the Florida National Guard patrolling the halls (or should I say "sidewalks" of our campus style school). In fact, living in Florida woke me up to the tragedies of racism... and I learned the lessons from the White Folk, Black Folk and Greek Folk.

On the other hand, I also learned how often the race card is played (especially in the press). Ask yourself... If the press did not make the race an issue (by featuring stories of Black people who got worse sentences for lesser crimes), would you have even considered race an issue?

Could it have been better lawyers (as you pointed out), or specific judges who have shown racial biases in the past? Were the comparisons all from the same jurisdiction?

Don't get me wrong, race could very well have been involved in the sentencing, but to jump right to race (especially considering the jump may have been motivated by the press instead of the facts) might just be a form of racism itself.

Actually, yes, I thought about it as soon as I heard the sentence she received. I was stunned by the sentence in this case. The whole press reaction to it came afterwards. I am not easily swayed by the sensationalism of the press.

I just call them like I see them and in this case there is definately something rotten in Denmark.

Nobody was charged with vehicular manslaughter for an accident. That's a crock. And there's a case of a black woman who hit and killed a white man in Florida, fled the scene, and ended up with no prison time. If you simply want to pick and choose particular cases to further an agenda, your argument will crumble. The fact is that Porters sentence is in line with similar cases in the state.

Race became an issue when the black nazis who call themselves uhurus made it one. Maybe I'm racist, maybe not. But I don't think calling wilkins a ghetto rat makes me a racist. Just to update you, I read today that she's pregnant with her 8th child to another random loser. Lets not pretend that she was a responsible mother. She's never taken responsibility for anything in her life. Her kids were hit because she failed to take care of them. She's a disgusting animal, the uhurus are nothing more than a black Klan, and I'm sooo sick of blacks screaming racism. And frankly, Jennifer Porter is worth more than lisa wilkins and her future welfare recipients. Porter is a productive, tax paying citizen. Wilkins is a criminal, a drain on society, and a parasite. I want to know when she's going to repay the taxpayers who raised her kids and the various landlords who had to evict her. She's the one who belongs in prison.

1. No agenda, I'm not a liberal as anyone who is actually a member here for any time well knows.

2. Yes, you do sound like a racist.

Maybe I'm racist, maybe not. But I don't think calling wilkins a ghetto rat makes me a racist. Just to update you, I read today that she's pregnant with her 8th child to another random loser.

Your whole line of comments is infact racist. You called the mother a ghetto rat, you labled her a bad mother because she has what, five kids? She has a picture of tupac on her wall? Are you serious about all this? Your whole argument is ridiculous!

Mason isn't being racist by what he's saying in this article. It's all his observations. The sentence seems way too light for what happened and because she left the scene. However, the fact that she's never been in trouble before may very well be the factor as to why she got the sentencing she did. I prefer to look at it that way as a terrible mistake she made and will concede to that. But lives were lost and that should have been an even bigger consideration.

However, Mason is right when he says what plays out here in Florida in the court system a lot. Sometimes the rulings are justifiable and sometimes they're not.