(((Or maybe not. Maybe he would have been condemned to medieval torture and impalement for carrying a halberd while falling off an oxcart.)))
(((The guy never actively DID anything evil, but he's gonna vanish into the American gulag and never be seen again.)))
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/16/0816dwi.html
Link: Austin man on parole gets life in seventh DWI.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
GEORGETOWN — A Williamson County jury sentenced an Austin man who was on parole from a life sentence to another life term in prison for his seventh drunken driving conviction.
Martin DiCarlo, 46, was arrested in October and charged with a felony, driving while intoxicated while on parole. (((You have to admire these logarithmically accelerated felony-felony-felonies. They must weed out a lot of guys off the crispy edges of the bell curve.)))
Since 1983, DiCarlo has been convicted of six driving while intoxicated charges and, in 1993, of burglary of a habitation. (((Okay – breaking into the house while drunk, that was some badness. Although, in a Pleistocene society composed of teepees, probably no one would have noticed.))) He has been released from prison on early parole five times since his first felony drunken driving charge — for his third such offense — in 1985.
DiCarlo was first sentenced to life in prison in 1997, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying a machine gun. (((Oh come on, who can't like those.))) He received the life sentence because it is a felony for a person convicted of a felony to carry a weapon. (((It's probably some kind of super-ultra double-special felony for a lifer on Death Row to have a machine gun, even though *manufacturing* machine guns is considered a bulwark of the social order.))) He was paroled in 2006 after spending nine years in prison. (((Where he was drunk. Probably.)))
In October, an Austin police officer pulled DiCarlo over, and officials said he had a blood alcohol level of .139. The legal limit in Texas is .08.
"One life sentence hanging over his head should have been enough, ((("you should have pretended to understand what we were doing to you"))) but not for Mr. DiCarlo," Assistant District Attorney Jane Starnes said during closing arguments Friday. "It wasn't enough to keep him from drinking, from smoking crack cocaine and from committing (another) felony." (((The technicians who invented crack cocaine probably belong in some special Hell along with those machine-gun architects.)))
Starnes told jury members that the least they could do was to give DiCarlo another life sentence. (((Why stop at that? How many life sentences can fit on the head of a pin?)))
DiCarlo's attorney, Jeff Senter, said during closing arguments that his client's past did not include violent crimes and that DiCarlo's criminal history was that of an addict. "These types of offenses are uniquely associated with alcohol and substance abuse," Senter said. (((Hey wait – isn't a machine gun a "substance"?)))
DiCarlo took the stand in his defense Friday. He told the jury of his struggles with sobriety....
(((There but for the grace of God, ladies and gentlemen.)))
