I wouldn't hold out much hope that those responsible for the burgling in the Senate will face any stiff consequences. Bill Clinton gets a blow job and almost is kicked out of office.
A U.S. Representative recklessly speeds down a low-visibility country road and without even tapping the breaks blows through a low-visibility stop sign and kills a man out for a ride on his motorcycle. He will serve 30 days in a county jail. Then walk away.
What kind of world...
FLANDREAU, S.D. - Bill Janklow, who dominated South Dakota politics for three decades and resigned his U.S. House seat hours after a jury convicted him of causing an accident that killed a man, was sentended Thursday to 100 days in jail.
Judge Rodney Steele ordered Janklow to serve his time in the Minnehaha County jail in Sioux Falls.
Steele gave Janklow a suspended imposition of sentence, which means he will not go to prison.
But he must serve the jail time and after 30 days, he can leave jail for up to 10 hours a day to perform community service and then return to his cell.
Janklow will be on probation for three years and during that time will not be allowed to drive.
Steele also fined Janklow $5,000, and he must repay Moody County $50 a day for the cost of his 100 days in jail.
Janklow was ordered to report to the Sioux Falls jail on Feb. 7 to begin his sentence.
On Dec. 8, a jury convicted Janklow, 64, of second-degree manslaughter for barreling through a stop sign at a rural intersection near Trent on Aug. 16 and colliding with motorcyclist Randy Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minn. He also was convicted of speeding, reckless driving and running a stop sign.
South Dakota does not require minimum sentences, so the judge's discretion ranged from no time behind bars and no fines to a total of 10 years in prison for the second-degree manslaughter count, 14 months in jail for the lesser counts and $11,400 in fines.