I'm watching this episode even as I type...and I'm as outraged by it now as I was when I first saw it.
Of course, in one sense it would never happen. The flight attendant who kept giving the drunk the liquor even though he was clearly too drunk to even speak properly would have been sued to within an inch of her life by the guy, who would have course have not gone to jail at all, since it wasn't his fault he was drunk, it was the flight attendant's fault because she kept giving him the liquor! At least, that's the way it would have happened in real life.
In real life, too many drunk drivers get away with murder, over and over again, because they were drunk at the time they killed their victims. They should be sent to jail for a long time, not let out after a couple of years to kill again.
As for this show, the guy knows he "blacks out" if he's drunk too much, that he'd already had an accident two years previous where he'd put a girl in a coma...
It's just stupid that he'd get a lesser sentence because he was "drunk"!
Of course, in one sense it would never happen. The flight attendant who kept giving the drunk the liquor even though he was clearly too drunk to even speak properly would have been sued to within an inch of her life by the guy, who would have course have not gone to jail at all, since it wasn't his fault he was drunk, it was the flight attendant's fault because she kept giving him the liquor! At least, that's the way it would have happened in real life.
In real life, too many drunk drivers get away with murder, over and over again, because they were drunk at the time they killed their victims. They should be sent to jail for a long time, not let out after a couple of years to kill again.
As for this show, the guy knows he "blacks out" if he's drunk too much, that he'd already had an accident two years previous where he'd put a girl in a coma...
It's just stupid that he'd get a lesser sentence because he was "drunk"!