People vs. Janklow, day one

Bottom line of lane splitting, period, is that its legal "when done in a
safe fashion". Which means that if ANYTHING happens when yer lane splitting,
its YOUR FAULT. I think the CHP will find that it was the officer's fault in
this case, at least that's the impression I got from a CHP
motor.................beemerphile

 

well, he followed up the guilty verdict by resigning from congress...

"I wish to inform you that because of present circumstances,
I will be unable to perform the duties incumbent on me in
representing the people of South Dakota as their U.S.
representative," Janklow wrote in a letter that he said was to be
sent to House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Tuesday."Therefore I wish
to inform you that I will resign from the House of
Representatives, effective January 20, 2004."

That is the same date Janklow is scheduled to be sentenced on his
manslaughter conviction.

 

He did get convicted on all counts, and resigned his House seat. But
I don't think any Angels were busted in South Dakota and if he serves
prison time, it will be a state facility.


R, UB

 

he resigned tonight

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/08/national2045EST0769.DTL

good. now on to the other bandits

d

 

This guy (http://www.friction-zone.com/sgtdesk.shtml), a CHP motor
sergeant in West LA, spoke at a meeting I attended a few months back (he
rode the 200mi up here on his R1150RTP, spoke and ate pizza with us for
3 hours, and turned around and rode home). I was interested in how they
investigate crashes and feed back results to other officers.

Motor crashes are investigated by a senior motorcycle training officer,
not by non-motor officers, and they're merciless. The criterion by
which the officer is judged is whether he could have prevented the
crash, regardless of legal fault. Sgt. Price said he'd been in 3
crashes in his 15 years, all judged to be preventable though the other
party was legally at fault.

 

The troll aside, would we be at all interested in the case of vehicular
manslaughter by a House Member from the middle of nowhere if the victim was
not a biker?

Given the circumstances of the killing, the fact that the victim was on a
bike was rather irrelevent. Just about any vehicle would have failed to
protect the driver.

I hope we're all as riled up the next time a bicyclist gets run down,
or any other victim of the rather popular sport of running stops in
our state.

 

Find some more, then. #1 cause on our freeways is tailgating. Rain comes down,
too many assholes still want to go 65-80.

The slowpokes should stay to the right, but that doesn't give the rest of
us license to hang on their ass until they do move.

 

Hey! Scientology can help you with that! It's one of the benefits of
buying courses which teach you power over Mass, Energy, Space, and Time!
(of course, up to this point, there has been no evidence that such
Powerzz<tm> exist, or I wouldn't have been able to write this...

barbz

 

Ever watch Scanners? Cronenberg flick...

Charles

 

That's the REAL question.
Will he do time in prison?
Will you be surprised if he doesn't?

 

This is a stretch. The fact that the victim was a motorcyclist was very
relevant to the death. Cars are getting pretty damn good at protecting
occupants.

 

Only so long ago that I don't remember it. Probably because I was a kid and
was hiding my eyes half the time. Something about exploding heads.

 

Thanks for cross-posting fuckhead!!!

 

Aren't we being a little too hard on the poor man ? Hasn't he suffered enough ?

"My prayers go to Bill - he hurts, he hurts," said Bush, who spoke to Janklow
not long after the Aug. 16 crash. "This matter will run its course. It's an
unintentional accident."

http://www.southdakotaelections.com/Story.cfm?Type=Election&ID=1948

 

No....No...

I want to blow them up.

 

Against a large american sedan going 70mph broadside into you?

I'll pass on that demonstration.

 

That was just a short reminder. The collision was discussed earlier.

http://www.kfmb.com/topstory20035.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20031120-9999_7m20motor.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20031119-2212-chp-staff.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20031124-0245-memorial.html
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/2660226/detail.html

He was climbing the hill out of Mission Valley.

Are you claiming the truck driver was driving at an "unsafe" speed?

 

And, of course, we will be paying his congressional pension for the rest of
his life.

PP

 

in the jankow case, I seem to recall the bike hit the car...

 

(r_kleinschmidt) wrote

As if having Dubya go to bat for you isn't damning enough...



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