Prison Time for throwing ice???!!

[ROX]

(Feb. 21) - A mother of three was sentenced to two years in prison by a jury for throwing a cup of ice into a car that cut her off in traffic. A judge can still reduce the sentence Wednedsay.

Jessica Hall, a North Carolina mother, drove down I-95 on a hot, sticky and gridlocked day with three kids whimpering in the back of the car, a pregnant sister in the front of the car and her husband serving his third tour of duty in Iraq .

Suddenly, the same car cut in front of Hall twice, and it was more than she could take. She snapped.

She tossed a large McDonald's cup filled with ice into the other car.

"It was a dumb decision to do what I did," Hall said later.

Hall's outburst didn't do any real damage, but it did land her in prison with a two-year sentence.

"I had to drop everything, all my life, my kids, everything," Hall said.

Her three kids are living with relatives until her husband gets back from Iraq.

"It's tearing the family apart. You know, we're holding on by really thin threads," said Jesse Hall, the woman's father. "One of the little girls asked that question 'is my momma coming home?' and I say soon."

Does the punishment fit the crime?

"What's disturbing about this case is the real lack of proportionality in the sentencing," Court TV's Lisa Bloom said. "Two years in prison, two years for her kids not to have a parent. That seems unduly harsh."

Even the occupants of the other car — sticky and angry at the time — are shocked at the final sentence.

But the prosecutor argued that the cup was a missile and could have caused major damage.

"But I'm sure prosecutors want to send a message by saying acts of road rage are unacceptable," Bloom said. "They're violent, they cause injuries and it's going to stop right here with this case."


Copyright 2007 ABCNEWS.com

2007-02-21 07:49:25

[mdoyle]

That sentence is too harsh for the crime, with that said, its a good example of why as a parent you don't do stupid ****, especially with your kids in the car.

The Judge was an idiot for assigning jail time under those circumstances in the first place, you don't serve that kind of time for a whole array of worse offenses.

[dеiтайожни]

I think we can all learn a valuable lesson from this. If someone pisses you off on the road, don't throw random crap at them... follow them until they stop and beat the shit out of them with a bat. You'll get less prison time!

[bparker]

Or just smile and silently follow them home and rub them out silently in thier garage and go home free =)

Originally Posted by dеiтайожни

I think we can all learn a valuable lesson from this. If someone pisses you off on the road, don't throw random crap at them... follow them until they stop and beat the shit out of them with a bat. You'll get less prison time!

[KenP]

Hopefully the judge will reduce that ridiculas sentence.

[Mr. I - Man]

Damn I should be serving a life sentence for all the trucker bombs, copenhagen spit cups and full yogurts, I deployed via surface to surface strikes from my jeep during my troubled youth.

[KenP]

Reduced to probation just now.

[frenzy1]

^^thats more like it !

[dеiтайожни]

I bet it was our posts that changed the Judge's mind.