{"id":329,"date":"2004-02-02T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:29","slug":"our_culture_of_personal_responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Our Culture Of Personal Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/LAW\/01\/09\/coffin.photo.ap\/\" target=\"browser\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BUTLER, Pennsylvania (AP) &#8212; A judge ordered a woman to carry a photo of the man she killed in a head-on collision, and the man&#8217;s parents complied by sending a picture of him in his casket. Now, her lawyer is crying foul and the family is refusing to provide another picture. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Jennifer Langston was drunk and talking on a cell phone in June 2002 when she crossed the center line and hit a pickup truck carrying teacher Glenn Clark and his pregnant wife, Annette. He died, his wife remains in a coma and their son, born by Caesarean section five months after the crash, is being raised by relatives. <\/p>\n<p>Besides vehicular homicide, Langston pleaded guilty in September to reckless endangerment and reckless driving. A judge sentenced her to 30 days in jail, plus house arrest and probation, and ordered her to carry a picture of Clark for five years.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She got 30 whole days in jail?? But wait, there&#8217;s more&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Clark&#8217;s parents gave court officials a photo of their son in his coffin. <\/p>\n<p>At a hearing Wednesday, Langston&#8217;s attorney, Michael Sherman, said the &#8220;spirit of the agreement&#8221; was that the photo be of Clark when he was alive. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very unreasonable and cruel that she was given that picture,&#8221; Sherman said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He must mean something different by &#8216;cruel&#8217; than I usually do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN: BUTLER, Pennsylvania (AP) &#8212; A judge ordered a woman to carry a photo of the man she killed in a head-on collision, and the man&#8217;s parents complied by sending a picture of him in his casket. Now, her lawyer is crying foul and the family is refusing to provide another picture. Prosecutors said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}