Jorge Barrios to return in the fall. WTF?!!

Vehicular manslaughter is tragic but is not a felony, heinous or otherwise. That's because it's a crime of negligence, otherwise the charge would have been murder.

This is not bad news if he's got anything left. He was always an exciting fighter. It's a shame he never got to mix it up with Valero (talk about a real POS who committed a heinous felony...) or Soto - those would have been special nights.

 

well, Donte Stallwroth hit and killed a construction worker in his car (while drunk, I might add) and he only served a month in jail...

 

Barrios didnt commit murder, he commited negligent homicide.

 

Murder, manslaughter. Who cares. Fact is, HIS NEGLIGENCE caused somebody to lose their life. LOSE THEIR LIFE.

 

People who matter care about that distinction. Negligence is an extremely low standard, nowhere near the culpability required for murder.

 

The people who said that were overreacting. The same thing was said of James Kirkland. The only recent high-profile boxer who's been truly well written off due to their sentencing was Ibeabuchi (there may be a couple of others but my sleep-deprived brain is too fried to think of them).

Vehicular homicide sounds heavier but is in actuality interchangeable with the term "vehicular manslaughter".

It's like this, at its most boiled down: homicide just means the killing of a person (without informing as to intent or motive). Manslaughter typically covers accidental killing, while murder (in its various degrees) covers intentional killings - premeditated, heat of passion, fits of insanity, etc.

So homicide is just the broad umbrella term and depending on the context can be interchangeable with either murder or manslaughter - but those two terms themselves are not interchangeable.

All manslaughters are homicides, and all murders are homicides, but not all homicides are manslaughters...or murders.

Capice?

 

Theres a big difference.

 

To put it in perspective:

1st Degree and Felony Murder- 15+ years in prison
Vehicular Homicide- 6 pts on your license and the possibility of up to 6 months in jail

 

I'd be really worried about a society whose judicial system didn't make a strong distinction between manslaughter and murder.

Obviously senseless premature life-taking is a bad thing under any circumstances and the victim is no less dead whether there was malice behind it. From a legalstandpoint, however - there is and ought to be a line drawn, with extremely different treatment given acccordingly.

 

He served a year and has to carry the burden the rest of his life. Whether it's sleepless nights on an institution-issued cot, or sleepless nights in his own bed - that guilt isn't going anywhere. You may not think that's ample enough punishment, but unless you've been responsible for the termination of a life yourself you can't know for sure.