On Friday, a judge sentenced Lau to two years’ probation with a three-year suspended license after she entered a no-contest plea.
Jesus Christ.
80 fucking years old and suspended license?! Not even fully revoked for fucking ever, suspended.
Should be an example for all elderly people behind the wheel. You overestimate your driving, there are real consequences. Just because you’re 80 doesn’t mean you are off the hook for fucking manslaughter.
The NY Post is a rag.
The driver is in her eighties, in poor health, previously had a clean record, was not intoxicated or distracted, showed remorse for what happened, and did not contest the charges against her. It is unknown if she suffered a medical incident at the time of the crash.
If prisons are truly for rehabilitation and not punishment, what is she to be rehabilitated for? She already doesn’t have much time left, and being thrown into an overcrowded, run down prison purely out of spite would only serve to further reduce her life expectancy and waste state funds.
If anything, this is a symptom of the state’s over reliance on cars, and insufficient testing and certification of elderly drivers.
In what ways did she show remorse? After the murders, she transferred many of her financial assets away such that the family of the victims couldn’t sue for them in a civil lawsuit. That doesn’t sound like remorse to me. Also AFAIK, she has never apologized, despite not contesting.
I don’t think she needs to rot in prison necessarily, but she shouldn’t be allowed ever drive again at a minimum.
