Oscar winning screenwriter of 'Pulp Fiction' sentenced to 1 year in jail for fatal DUI

[Liberal_in_LA]

`Pulp Fiction' writer sentenced in fatal DUI crash

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction," has been sentenced to a year in jail for causing a fatal traffic accident in Ventura County.

Roger Avary was sentenced Tuesday in a Ventura court. He also received five years probation.

Avary pleaded guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for the 2008 crash that killed a passenger in his Mercedes. Authorities say the car was traveling at more than 100 mph when it crashed into a telephone pole.

Avary's wife was ejected from the car and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Avary and Quentin Tarantino share the 1995 Academy Award for writing "Pulp Fiction." He also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie "Beowulf."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/29/entertainment/e185354D63.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0SYrBEz72

[timeforpeace]

1. Got off easy. Some places it's one year just for the DUI, much less a death.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. I'm sure he had the money for a good attorney. Money talks

[anonymous171]

2. Our revenge obsessed society is sickening. nt

[Ikonoklast]

4. Yeah, they should have let him go free.

After all, he is rich and famous, he doesn't deserve any punishment like incarceration.

:eyes:


Asshole got off easy. He should be doing a longer stretch for vehicular manslaughter.

[cali]

8. yeah, it's just sickening that someone driving a car at 100 miles an hour

and crashing that car and killing someone should have to go to jail.

your post is sick.

[miyazaki]

5. only a year. amazing. n/t

[JordanSmith73]

6. Interesting

[provis99]

7. should have got 25 to life for murder.

If he'd done this in Florida, that's exactly what he'd have gotten.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Unless he was someone like rush limbballs

There was an article posted around the time that rush was getting let off of his drug trafficking charges, it showed a man in obvious pain confined to a wheelchair who was arrested for less than what rush was arrested for--he went to prison--for a long time--and he had ACTUAL pain, not just an addiction.

[sendero]

9. Equal justice...

... once a nice idea, now an impossibility.