Incriminating Online Pics Bad News for Defendants
There are many examples, like Lara Buys, who in 2006 was involved in a drunken driving crash that killed her passenger. She was due to be recommended for probation, but when pictures on her MySpace page surfaced of her drinking and partying after the crash, they were used to show her lack of repentance. She was sentenced to two years in jail. Joshua Lipton was involved in a crash that seriously injured a woman, and after that posted pictures of himself partying while dressed up as a prisoner. He too was sentenced to two years in jail.
There are many other tales like those, so be warned that if you're facing trial for some criminal misdeed that involves drinking, you might want to take this opportunity to remove those non-remorseful photos of yourself partying the night after you were released on bail -- and ask your friends nicely to do the same. [Source: CBS News]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rule1 @ Jul 27th 2008 6:41PM
The dumber you are the tougher you gotta be.
greg @ Jul 28th 2008 2:37AM
wow...I'm actually glad those people got busted. Theres pretty screwed up partying after u just killed someone. I think I wouldn't be able to do anything for a long, long time if I had been involved with someone dying.
Mark @ Jul 28th 2008 5:59PM
You're assuming that they aren't just drinking to deaden their emotions about having killed someone. A perfectly probably scenario that actually does reflect repentence and that should be treated with rehab and counseling, not jail time.
greg @ Jul 28th 2008 10:50PM
True, I guess it depends on what the picture shows. But I assumed that it wasn't remorseful drinking since the article said "partying."
sherry @ Jul 30th 2008 9:17AM
This is all so true. Parents need to keep an eye on these teenagers. I looked at my sons and found out so preety awful stuff. My son was strung out on drugs,in a gang. It all lead up to me locking him up to save his life. some of this picks these girls are posting is just unbelievable. It' no wonder they in up gettinng reaped and missing.These kids should not be able to go on line in our schools they are bad enoughn as it is. Theres noway those books should be in our schools. It's down right heart breaking.