Carr treated just the same as anyone else before court
By Scott Sexton
Winston-Salem Journal
No matter how much prison time Judge John Smith gave to Tolly Carr, it wasn’t going to be enough.
Carr, the former WXII television anchor, got off light with a felony death-by-motor-vehicle charge in connection with killing Casey Bokhoven, some would say. Twenty-five to 39 months is not nearly enough.
Carr put away enough booze over a drinking binge that his blood-alcohol content was over 1 1/2 times the legal limit four hours after the wreck. Despite being warned not to drive, Carr got in his truck, careered past “road closed” signs on First Street and plowed into Bokhoven. Then he acted like a jerk, witnesses said, more concerned with the trouble that he knew he was in than with a dead man pinned under his truck.
The anti-Carr crowd would say his conduct was reckless, stupid, criminal. String him up. Make an example out of him.
But others would say that two years or more in prison is too much.
More would be gained, they say, by having Carr speak to young people about the dangers of drunken driving than putting him in prison. Use his celebrity for a larger public service. He turned himself in, refused bond and served four months in the Forsyth County Jail. It’s not like he picked up a gun and shot somebody; he didn’t intend to kill Bokhoven, say those who support him.
“I know him and I like him,” District Attorney Tom Keith said of Carr yesterday before the sentence was handed down. “It’s unfortunate for him. But that’s my job, and he doesn’t get a break for being Tolly Carr, nor does he get hammered for being Tolly Carr.”
Winston-Salem Journal
No matter how much prison time Judge John Smith gave to Tolly Carr, it wasn’t going to be enough.
Carr, the former WXII television anchor, got off light with a felony death-by-motor-vehicle charge in connection with killing Casey Bokhoven, some would say. Twenty-five to 39 months is not nearly enough.
Carr put away enough booze over a drinking binge that his blood-alcohol content was over 1 1/2 times the legal limit four hours after the wreck. Despite being warned not to drive, Carr got in his truck, careered past “road closed” signs on First Street and plowed into Bokhoven. Then he acted like a jerk, witnesses said, more concerned with the trouble that he knew he was in than with a dead man pinned under his truck.
The anti-Carr crowd would say his conduct was reckless, stupid, criminal. String him up. Make an example out of him.
But others would say that two years or more in prison is too much.
More would be gained, they say, by having Carr speak to young people about the dangers of drunken driving than putting him in prison. Use his celebrity for a larger public service. He turned himself in, refused bond and served four months in the Forsyth County Jail. It’s not like he picked up a gun and shot somebody; he didn’t intend to kill Bokhoven, say those who support him.
“I know him and I like him,” District Attorney Tom Keith said of Carr yesterday before the sentence was handed down. “It’s unfortunate for him. But that’s my job, and he doesn’t get a break for being Tolly Carr, nor does he get hammered for being Tolly Carr.”
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 5:48 PM
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“I know him and I like him,” District Attorney Tom Keith said of Carr yesterday before the sentence was handed down. “It’s unfortunate for him. But that’s my job, and he doesn’t get a break for being Tolly Carr, nor does he get hammered for being Tolly Carr.”
Uh huh. Right. Sure thing.
So, you get 3 years in prison for getting snot-slinging drunk and killing someone, but you get 8 to 10 for having sex with a teenager or 15 to 20 for selling someone a bag of pot.
Yep, our legal system is a real peach.
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