BBC News: Driver 'must carry coffin photo'
(Jan. 22, 2004)A woman who killed a man in a car crash must carry a photograph of her victim lying in his coffin despite her objections, a US judge has ruled.
Jennifer Langston, 27, was ordered to carry a picture of Glenn Clark for five years as part of a plea bargain. (boxun.com)
But when his family gave her a picture of the dead man in his coffin, Langston initially refused to comply.
The judge has now enforced the punishment, part of a trend in the United States for creative sentencing.
Other trials have also seen convicted defendants ordered to carry photographs of their victims or lay flowers on their graves.
Langston was drunk and talking on her mobile phone when her car collided head-on with a vehicle carrying Glenn Clark and his pregnant wife, Annette, in Pennsylvania in June 2002.
He was killed and Annette is in an irreversible coma. Their son, born by Caesarean section, is being raised by relatives.
Morbid
Judge George Hancher sentenced Langston, a single mother of two, to 30 days in jail followed by house arrest and probation.
He also stipulated that she carry a picture of her victim in her purse at all times for the next five years.
Langston's lawyer said being forced to carry a picture of the man in the coffin was not in the spirit of the plea agreement and "was cruel and morbid".
But Judge Hancher has now ruled that Langston has to carry the photo provided by Clark's mother, Rosellen Clark Moller, who remains unapologetic.
"That's where she put him - in a casket. That's just what she did for him," Mrs Moller said.
The above report is claimed to be from BBC according to the provider. In China, a car accident has caught hugh attention from the mass population. A woman Su Wenxiu, who drove a big BMW, killed one lady and injured 12 others. The woman is from an extremely family. She was released within a week after the incident.
Witnesses said that Su Wenxiu killed the lady on purpose after she found her car lost a mirror and became angery. When she rushed into crowds before her car, 12 others were injured, at least a few with broken bones.
Su Wenxiu's quick release put the justice procedure under question. Now China has restricted any report on this case. Witnesses and those injured received death warning too.
_(博讯记者：博讯自由发稿) (boxun.com)
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