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Yvonne Abraham

Light sentences in drunken driving cases feed dangerous myth

What will it take? Bodies pile up. Lives are ravaged. The 16,000 arrested each year are just an unlucky fraction of a much, much larger problem. This tolerance for the intolerable seeps in everywhere – even into a case as horrific as one that wrapped up in Middlesex Superior Court earlier this month.

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