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Friend: Man convicted in teen's 2007 death needs help, not jail

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What turn him loose again to do to another person what he did to his friend. Yes, he does need help, but he needs to be punished and at the same time get him off the drugs. It's a horrible thing to be hooked on the drugs, but, most of the people who are have a hard time getting off of them, or don't want to. Like an alcholic, they have to hit rock bottom and then start climbing back up. I hope that he does get the help that he deserves, but at the same time, he will have to be incarcerated to make sure that he get off of the drugs and the alcohol.

lwe1967
February 22, 2013 6:49 p.m.

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He cannot be helped until he decides he can be helped. This person, no one else, is responsible for his actions. We all have to grow up in order to live to get old.

ripetomatoes
February 22, 2013 3:11 p.m.

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I believe the best treatment for DUI Homicide would be 5 years on a nice prison farm where you had to grow your own food or die. Lots of time to think about the important things when you are bent over a row of beans or cucumbers in the hot summer sun..... Certain it would work more miracles than any time on a shrinks couch.

dlnorri
February 22, 2013 2:57 p.m.

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What help has he been getting all these years and what good has it done? What will be different here after?

djofraleigh
February 22, 2013 12:33 p.m.

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Enabiling his behavior WON'T help him. Still living at home at age 24. Doesn't have money for rent, but has money for drugs? His friend and parents are not helping at all as long as they continue to enable him. He had HEROIN in his system, not Tylenol!

luxurytravel
February 22, 2013 10:51 a.m.

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Maybe if his friend was such a good friend, he would have kept him off the stuff, anyone ever think about that?

babedan
February 22, 2013 9:31 a.m.

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wyzynidl, he never went to jail. The problem is folks like you who want to blame everyone else for your problems. Take responsibility. I'm sure he knew the dangers of drugs, he knew you don't drink and drive and he did it anyway. Now it's time to pay the piper. Our system is a mess, because of Judges who don't give out justice because they have this bleeding heart idea like you do, that puts the blame on everything except the one responsible for their actions.

babedan
February 22, 2013 9:31 a.m.

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I feel for this guy and any others. The problem is our system is screwed. The courts lock people up quick, but upon release they give no rehabilitation for these people. Everyone needs a chance to correct their unapproved actions, and the system knows this. It just another way to control people. And, for the people that is quick to say lock them are the reasons why people that need help can't get any. Before long our system will quite a mess.

wyzynidl
February 22, 2013 8:16 a.m.

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Someone needs to tell this "friend" that, in this case, "help" is jail.

NotUrTypicalAmerican
February 22, 2013 8:12 a.m.

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Let him serve his time, give him another chance while in prison then after that he can get more help. He can get more education, could stay off alcohol and drugs if prisoners were confined and/or under control, get fed, medical aid, have television, etc. And look, it will not cost him a dime, he will not have to rob anyone nor will he be driving under the influence.