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Judiciary committee advances bill imposing mandatory minimums for DUI deaths
Summary
The Idaho Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee voted to send Senate Bill 1099 to the floor with a “do pass” recommendation. The bill would require judges to give specific warnings after an initial DUI conviction and impose graduated mandatory minimum prison terms if a later DUI results in vehicular manslaughter.
The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee on March 4 voted to send Senate Bill 1099 to the Senate floor with a “do pass” recommendation after a daylong hearing and public testimony.
Senator Craig Burtt, a state senator from District 21 (Ada County), introduced S.B. 1099 as a mandatory-minimum scheme for drivers convicted of DUI who later cause a death. "When someone is sentenced for their first DUI conviction...the judge will now have to issue a warning stating that future DUI convictions along with vehicular manslaughter convictions may, or will result in a mandatory minimum of 5 to 10 years depending on how many DUIs they have on the record," Burtt said.
The bill would require a judge to warn a person convicted of a first DUI that a future conviction combined with a vehicular-manslaughter charge could trigger a mandatory minimum. Under the bill’s sliding scale, a second DUI that results in vehicular manslaughter would carry a five-year mandatory minimum; a third or…
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