Busch “Sentenced” To Community Service
Written by George Katinger · February 9, 2006
Well, the much ballyhooed trial of Kurt Busch for violating the Maricopa County driving statutes is over. It actually never started.
speedtv.com: Kurt Busch Gets 50 Hours of Community Service
Sheriff Joe Arpaio must be proud. In a pretrial plea agreement Kurt has signed off to a sentence of 50 hours of community service to be fullfilled within a year. What I’d like to know is if the judge placed any sanctions on the sheriff’s department over how badly the department mismanaged the incident, not to mention the self serving publicity they generated?
In another setting and circumstance I believe Kurt would have a case for defamation of character as well as loss of income due to his premature termination by Roush. That’s one side of the argument, but what about Busch’s arrogance and grandstanding? Is that all there is? 50 hours of community service, basically a long weekend? If justice is to be served the judge should have picked one weekend and assigned the date. Oh, say, the weekend of February 18, or August 6th, or November 19th. Those happen to be the dates that the Daytona 500, The Brickyard, and the season ending race at Homestead-Miami are respectively run.
50 hours of community service may not be a sentence, but missing any of those races would surely be hard time! And I believe deservedly so. It’s one thing to be a percieved punk on the track and quite another to bring that attitude to our streets, especially by such a public figure.
While I don’t think he deserves capital punishment, 50 hours of community service doesn’t work either.
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A lack of parity in punishments for driving offences by “identities” is nothing new. Lizzie Grubman? or Chappaquiddick?!!