No justice

Woman found guilty but mentally ill in crash that killed 3

SKOKIE, Ill. - A judge has found a former model guilty but mentally ill for causing a high-speed crash that killed three Chicago rock musicians during an alleged suicide attempt.

The judge found 25-year-old Jeannette Sliwinski guilty of three counts of reckless homicide and one count of aggravated battery in the July 2005 deaths of Michael Dahlquist, John Glick and Douglas Meis.

Sliwinski allegedly told investigators she was trying to take her own life. Police say she was driving at least 70 miles per hour.

Prosecutors say she'll go to a mental hospital after she's sentenced on November 26th. If she's deemed mentally fit, she'll later transfer to a prison. She faces a sentence of up to five years.

3 musicians silenced.

She gets up to 5.

Is this justice? She lives, three men die? She walks in 5.

In the video of this story, one of the prosecutors mentioned, "we've had a long history with Jeannette..." Which I immediately wondered, then why was she allowed to drive a car? I noticed this wasn't mentioned in the print version.

And another thought popped into my little two celled brain - when you want to take yourself off this rock, why do you have to take others out with you? Especially people you don't even know? Apparently this happened minutes after Jeannette had a fight with her mother. You fought with your mother Jeannette, why not take her out with you? Couldn't you find a nice bridge to jump off of? Well, she'd probably have decided to do that over the Peterson overpass - and kill a bus full of kids. Is it that hard to spend 300 bucks, hell put it on a credit card, and blow your head off? Nice, easy, over.

No, you have to ram a car stopped at a stop sign at 70+ miles an hour.

Just three guys, on their lunch break from Shure. Getting some tacos. Perhaps they were bitchin' about work, or the plot twist of the shared TV show they all watched. In front of them, a narcissistic Honda Civic revs up across the intersection.

Now they're gone.

Why did she have a license to drive? Why did the prosecution have a 'long history' with her, but yet she was still allowed to drive a car? Why is she getting out of jail in five years? How come no one could collaborate that she was actually nuts in the trial? Why is she guilty, but she wasn't forced to live her life contemplating what she did? I don't want her dead - mostly because that's what she wants.

Why is she going to go free in five years? She's getting less jail time than George "Evil Santa Claus" Ryan.

At least the kid who got a b.j. is being released. (link to that one.)