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Robyn Nance/KXLY: ‘I do not understand!’

KXLY's Robyn Nance. (KXLY photo)
KXLY's Robyn Nance. (KXLY photo)

"I do not understand! One drunk driver kills a father and his 2 young daughters and gets ONE YEAR in jail (he was sentenced last week in Kootenai Co), another drunk driver kills a teenager and seriously injures another and gets 10 YEARS (sentenced yesterday in Spokane Co). Help me understand. I get that every case is different and there are intricacies, but, is this an Idaho/WA thing? Is it because of the drivers' backgrounds? Ethnicities? What? I honestly want to know" -- Robyn Nance, via Facebook, re: recent court sentencing in DUI cases in Idaho and Washington. Robyn's grandfather was killed by a drunk driver.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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