Former Tide WR Henry Ruggs involved in fatal car accident, to be charged with DUI resulting in death

Did you say "justice"? What is that?? I have no clue.

 

Bama having quite the offseason.

 

Okay, would you feel it was an appropriate sentence and justice was served if it had been your loved one that had been killed by his willful and wanton actions that night?? The poor young lady and her dog were burnt alive in the car, witnesses at the scene could hear her screaming. It saved taxpayers money by not going to trial, should that really be a factor in serving justice? Since when?? This was a slam dunk case, hence why he’s pleading, to get a potential lighter sentence. What sentence would he have been facing if it did go to trail? Let’s say he does get 8-10yrs, how much of that will he actually serve, 50-75%, maybe. That’s pathetic, imho.

156mph

 

May as well have tied those victims to wood posts and burned them the "old way".

I agree with 62, a heinous and unnecessary crime and murder was committed here from the evidence presented.

 

He is pleading guilty to Felony DUI resulting in death and involuntary manslaughter. These are appropriate charges, in addition to civil litigation hopefully getting at whatever he has left financially. It’s not like they are letting him charge down to wreckless driving or some joke charge and letting him get back to football next week. It sounds like Ruggs is getting hard time, which he fully deserves, and his life as he previously knew it is over (again, fully deserved).

I’ve heard of many stories of DUI fatality cases getting off much lighter. Like no jail, suspended license, and back on the road in a year or two. I understand some want full eye for an eye vengeance, I can’t speak to what the family wants. But if the judge gives a strong sentence I don’t think it’s that ridiculous. But again, it’s still up to the judge to dish out sentencing.

I just don’t see what issue people have with pleading guilty. That is sort of the point of giving the opportunity plead guilt or innocence at the start of trials, no? To get it over with? Outside of mass killers and psychopaths, the impetus should always be to accept a reasonable guilty plea. It might mean they plead to one notch below the absolute maximum, but I’d rather see guilty parties own it in that way then to watch even 10% of them beat the charges. It’s quite annoying seeing obviously guilty parties plead “not guilty”, and then even more sickening in those cases where the lawyer “wins” for them on a technicality or confusing the jury by making the case seem far more complex than it really is (a quite common technique in white collar fraud cases).

 

It's possible he really has remorse and is owning up to it, which is rare in today's society.

 

While 3 years would be disappointing, I don’t have an issue with the high end of that 3-10 yr band. 10 years is a long time. What were any one of us doing 10 years ago? My daughter was just finishing her first year of middle school back then, and is currently a year removed from college. Both my parents have passed during that time as well as 2 uncles and a very close friend I grew up with. We’ve lost 3 pets (a dog and 2 cats).

Spending most of your existence for the next 10 years in a 6x8 cell, eating crappy food, with maybe an hour each day in the “yard” is pretty freakin miserable. I don’t find it inappropriate.

 

Never saw the license plate on the vette. What did it say?

 

Ironically Sam Kinison was killed while in a bus

 

So sad

 

This is a very legit point. Getting to an event via Uber is way easier than catching a ride home when thousands of other people are bombing Uber at the same time. I’m certainly not in favor of banning alcoholic beverages from sports and concert venues, but this is a problem with almost no practical solution to implement. People have to care and be responsible — and sadly too many aren’t

 

fwiw, it was a drunk driver that hit him though.

“On April 10, 1992, Kinison was driving his Pontiac Turbo Trans Am when it was struck head-on on Needles Highway northwest of Needles, California, by a pickup truck driven by 17-year-old Troy Pierson. Prior to the crash, Pierson had been drinking alcohol.”

 

And if tgat doesn’t get his attention, he’s a lost cause.

 

Apparently Nevada has some odd sentencing structures. You don’t necessarily get a specific number, but a range of years. Then how you handle things on the inside determines how long you’re in for. Again, very odd. I bet how many years Ruggs actually spends in prison is fairly low, unfortunately.

15-44yrs.



5-20yrs.



26-65yrs.




Ruggs is only facing 3-10yrs, smh!

 

You seem pretty invested in seeing Ruggs do a lot of time.

 

Not “invested” in anything. Just think the 3-10 year sentencing band that has been circulating seems appropriate… if it was on the higher end.

 

Well he did take life?

 

What an odd post. The woman and her dog literally burned alive in that tomb of a car

 

So, he is clearly getting off light, just because of a potential technical misstep during the initial investigation, not because the results were inaccurate. Ruggs was drunk as a skunk driving 156mph when he slammed into the car of an innocent young girl and her dog killing them in a horrifying fireball. Complete and utter BS!!!

Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs III pleads guilty to two charges stemming from fatal DUI crash

 

With that, I am locking this thread and will unlock it when @62gator has any update(s) from the August 9th sentencing.