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Despite emotional statements from her victims and a flood of letters asking for harsher punishment, Charlotte DePersia of East Hampton—a repeat DWI offender who pleaded guilty after injuring two people in a car accident in November 2010—will not serve any jail time.
Appearing before Judge William Conden at the Arthur M. Cromarty Courthouse in Riverhead for her sentencing on Tuesday, Ms. DePersia, 58, was sentenced to 840 hours of community service, which will be served in lieu of six months of jail time, as punishment for the felony DWI charge connected with the crash.
She was also sentenced to five years of probation and must wear a mandated ankle device called a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor, or SCRAM, at all times. Additionally, she must follow strict alcohol and narcotics provisions and... more
Appearing before Judge William Conden at the Arthur M. Cromarty Courthouse in Riverhead for her sentencing on Tuesday, Ms. DePersia, 58, was sentenced to 840 hours of community service, which will be served in lieu of six months of jail time, as punishment for the felony DWI charge connected with the crash.
She was also sentenced to five years of probation and must wear a mandated ankle device called a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor, or SCRAM, at all times. Additionally, she must follow strict alcohol and narcotics provisions and... more
Oh, and she will do it again Judge
That, I believe, is the basis of the victims herein militating so publicly for a jail sentence for Ms. DePersia. Having failed at to have her incarcerated, the most proactive remaining strategy is to broadcast the story of their suffering at her hands so that few potential jurors in the population are unaware of their anguish resulting from the accident. There are just so many challenges that the respondent's attorney will be allowed in his voir dire of the jury pool for their upcoming trials.
What Ms. DePersia did was reprehensible but trying to game the justice system for financial reward is as well.
Dumb your arguement down a little...
This is why they call it a court of Laws, not justice ;)
It is evident from their public comments that the victims intend to allege life-long disabilities, physical and mental, from their traumatic experience (despite the fact ...more that in appearance they seem hale and hearty.)
So temper your ire at Ms. DePersia's skip-out on jail and mute your compassion for the victims. They are all just playing the Justice game by the rules laid out by the law and the legal profe$$ion.