Judge sentences Carr to 25 to 39 months
(Winston-Salem Journal) - Former TV-news anchor Tolly Carr has been sentenced to 25 to 39 months in prison for a drunken-driving wreck that killed pedestrian Casey Bokhoven in March.
Judge John Smith also sentenced Carr to 16 to 20 months for felony injury by vehicle. That sentence was suspended. He was also fined $10,000 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.
Carr, who has been in the Forsyth County Jail for nearly four months, will get credit for time served.
Carr pleaded guilty to felony death by vehicle, felony serious injury by vehicle and driving while impaired during today's hearing in Forsyth Superior Court.
Judge John Smith also sentenced Carr to 16 to 20 months for felony injury by vehicle. That sentence was suspended. He was also fined $10,000 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.
Carr, who has been in the Forsyth County Jail for nearly four months, will get credit for time served.
Carr pleaded guilty to felony death by vehicle, felony serious injury by vehicle and driving while impaired during today's hearing in Forsyth Superior Court.
posted by BP News Bureau | 9:13 PM
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Not sure if it's fair ... but I have no doubt that Tolly Carr didn't set out to kill anyone that night. He made a grave mistake that has scarred his life. His career, as he wanted it, is over. He killed someone that he didn't even know, and then he discovers all this information about this great person that he killed. As a genuinely caring person, can you imagine the torture of knowing that you were the cause of an unjust death?
Anyway, he can do his time, then prove himself, as promised, to be a hardworking advocate of moderation in life. Good luck, Tolly.
Maybe I am biased because Casey was the son of an acquaintance and I know the devastation wrought on the family by this, but I think the sentence was far too light. I don't think Carr seems all that repentant either.
I have to disagree on his intent as well. Everyone with an IQ over 15 knows what the inevitable outcome of getting into a car when you're that drunk. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Carr is no less culpable for his intent than if he has started firing a gun indiscriminately on a city street.
This sentence is a joke. Mr. Carr gets a 39 month “vacation” for driving drunk and killing someone. Who really thinks he will do the whole sentence? By the time he gets out his anchor seat would still be warm. I hope he is grateful for his “second chance” since the victim will not have that opportunity.
I think he should at least get three years and I guess it's fair enough, but if it were my child he killed, I might think differently. We could go back and fourth with this all day. I assume since he didn't have a record and no DUI's before, this is why it wasn't harsher.
I say too light... but like my mom said, he will have to live with this for the rest of his life; that's a punishment in itself...
I wouldn't call it murder exactly since it wasn't his intention to go out and kill someone, but he did cause a death of an innocent person; he should pay for that big time. Besides jail, he lost a great job, his driver's license forever and a lot of his self worth I'm sure, but he will get to at least live and make a new life. The guy he killed doesn't have any choices and his family left behind will suffer daily. Casey isn't suffering anymore and won't ever, but his family will for as long as they live; that's the saddest part of all. I feel mostly for his mother.
I wouldn't call it murder exactly since it wasn't his intention to go out and kill someone...
I don't agree. Sure, there was probably never a moment in his mind where he decided to kill Casey, but that doesn't excuse him of culpability for murder.
If Carr had walked up Elm St. at 2 am, firing a gun indiscriminately, you could say he didn't intend to kill anyone, but if he did, you would still say it was murder. I don't see a difference here. Carr knew that getting into his car drunk had a very high probability of ending in a fatality. Intent only has to do with what type of murder is committed. If you cause someone to die through your action, or even in certain cases your inaction, then it is murder and you should suffer the consequences of it. Anything less harsh dehumanizes our society.
Steve has to butt heads with any and every person's words. He gets on my nerves. No matter what he says and how truly bad I feel about drunk drivers killing people, I still wouldn't call this murder, but I wouldn't call it accidental either.
I want drunk drivers to have harsher sentences and people caught with drunk driving before killing someone should have harsher penalties too. We take crimes like this too lightly in our society. First offense: drunk drivers should have their licenses taken away for a year. After that, two years of blowing into a breathalyzer to be able to start their vehicles. Also, pictures of these people should be printed each week in all newspapers. Public humiliation should be more involved.
Steve has to butt heads with any and every person's words. He gets on my nerves.
Yes, in Monica's flowers and rainbow world, everything she says is perfect and no one could possibly have a reason to disagree with her. And disagreement is just so messy and icky. I guess that's why I get on her nerves. I don't know if I'll be able to sleep at night now.
No matter what he says and how truly bad I feel about drunk drivers killing people, I still wouldn't call this murder, but I wouldn't call it accidental either.
Then enlighten us, oh great oracle of illogic, exactly what is it then? It's hard to operate the rule of law on Monica's feelings, no matter how wonderful she may find them to be.
I personally believe the entire driver's licensing scheme is a complete mess. We should do one of two things: either ditch it altogether and then it's every man (and woman) for himself, or we should have far more stringent measures in place for getting a license, so stringent that fewer than 50% of the population will be allowed to drive. In the latter case, DUI should represent a no strikes and you're out offense. Get popped for it and you're done, forever.
Steve really gets off on his own opinion but then dumps on anyone else's. I swear he needs a life. I'm done. I never claimed to have the answers; I was simply giving my opinion. Steve's an ass, and of course, this is only my little peon opinion.
Typical.
Monica throws her opinion out there, but is unwilling to defend it. If she's questioned, she gets angry and resorts to name-calling and ad hominem. Of course, the fact that she gets to that state is all my fault.
I wonder if Monica knows that her unwillingness to defend her opinions or to even discuss them makes them utterly worthless. It means she threw them out there without even bothering to think about them. It's the beauty queen telling the world she plans to solve world hunger, but when questioned on how she plans to go about it becomes flustered and throws a little snit.
Visualize whirled peas.
OMG, Andy: See, what this guy fails to realize is that I don't care to defend myself to a person like himself. It's useless to; he only hears himself. Geez, and I have better things to do with my time than deal with him.
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