Sooo…..you basically understand nothing about that case. A couple of points:

1) The accident was the fault of the pedestrian. No one disputes this. He was jaywalking against the light.

2) Florida State law does not allow someone to be convicted of vehicular homicide simply because they were legally intoxicated. It must be proven by the prosecutor that the intoxication was the direct cause of the accident, which experts agree would have been next to impossible to do in this case.

3) If he would have insisted on a trial, he most likely, based upon all of the above information, been acquitted of vehicular manslaughter and only convicted of basic DUI, and not spent any time in jail at all. Same thing for “you or I”. No one would have gone to jail for anywhere close to 5 years given the actual facts of the case.

3) It was Stallworth’s choice not push for a trial he could easily have won because he felt the right thing to was to settle the case and financially compensate the family.

All of this is fact. You can look it up if you care. It DOES NOT excuse his actions that night, but the idea that he got off easy because he’s an NFL player is nonsense.

Not excusing Stallworth for driving while enebriated, but he stayed at the scene, went to jail, showed remorse, and paid the family.

Try using Leonard Little the next time. He actually plowed through a red light and killed Susan Gutweiler.

Three times more people die by suicide than drunk driving accidents every year.

It’s great that they’re allowing MADD to be there.

It’d be 3 times better if they addressed suicide and depression.