Conclusion to the Raquel Nelson Case? I don't think so.

Today Raquel Nelson, a Georgia mother being charged with three misdemeanors because another drunk driver killed her son in a hit and run accident, was "spared" from a jail sentence as the AP reports it. While she might not have to go to jail, the prosecution (in all its mercy, of course) still asked that Nelson be put on probation. The judge in her increasing magnanimity gave Nelson a year long probation (per prosecution request) and 40 hours of community service. Perhaps the one silver lining in this case for Nelson is that the judge has also given her the chance for a retrial to clear her name, and it is hopefully at this trial that Nelson will finally be able to have a jury of peers. Yet it is sad to think that I don't believe that justice will ever be served for Nelson, in light of the states hardball prosecution of her and the light sentence given to her son's killer.

All prosecutor Annamarie Baltz had to say was "the state is bound to uphold the law" (in charging Nelson) and that prosecutors never intended to send her to prison. 

1. Prosecution never intended to send her to prison? So the goal was to scare a grieving mother and her two young daughters by convicting her of second degree vehicular homicide? What a vindictive use of the law, prosecutors! Not to mention a waste of Georgian tax payer dollars that went to fun your little court circus to prove that what? You can use the law arbitrarily to threaten citizens?
2. Why is Mrs. Nelson forced to do community service when it was Jerry Guy that caused the community tragedy? 
3. Does anybody think that this comes off as strange following the verdict on the Casey Anthony trial? I wont go into the details, but think about it- it's so incongruous.

For more info regarding Mrs. Nelson's sentence go here.