Are Charges Enough for Teen Driver?

The deaths of a couple immediately killed in their car when an unlicensed 17-year-old driver ran through a red light on a Grand Central Parkway service road has upset and outraged their neighbors. Jacob Chubalashvili, who stole the keys to a Mercedes from a family friend who was supposed to be watching him, faces many charges, including second degree manslaughter, speeding, and driving without a license after causing the crash that killed Ki and Hyek Young Kim Tuesday morning. The Kims' neighbor told NY1, "It's terrible, it's just terrible. It could happen to me it could happen to my family. It's just sad that things like this happen and that 17-year-old kid is going to get minimal time." Chubalashvili also told the police he had been smoking marijuana before driving.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 7, 2008 11:31 AM

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NannyState

Georgian trash.

The Edge

Waterboard him.

interlard

Dumb little shit needs to suffer. But it won't bring the dead people back. My heart goes out to the families of *all* those involved.

zodak

what he will turn into?!

he's already a thief & a murderer.

mocanlagunas

he should have died (very slowly and painfully) from injuries of the accident...

jonathan

One less douchebag idiot kid with an overinflated sense of entitlement off the street.

Give him the max sentence, let him come out an old man.

Politburo

"actually, if he's convicted of a felony, he'll never be able to vote."

This depends on where he chooses to live, and the trend in the past 10 years or so has been to reduce disenfranchisement of felons.

JenChungsBaby

Manslaughter? He steals a car, drives under the influence with no license, runs a red light and kills two people and it's just 2nd degree manslaughter? Should be murder in the second degree, as defined by S 125.25 here:

Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life,he recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby causes the death of another person;

MFer

Ok, so you let him off scot-free. And after a year he'll be smoking dope, selling drugs, and killing more people.

Yes, we all know what this kid will turn into.

GOP

They should put him into a car with his loved one and drive a Mercedes through him.

ed_Extinct

actually, if he's convicted of a felony, he'll never be able to vote.

Kojak

Ok, so you throw him in jail , and after 30 years incarcerated in the big house he will learn the error of his ways. Then we can release him and he will become an outstanding citizen who votes, pays taxes, and assists little old ladies with crossing the street.

That is what we'd like to believe, but we all know what this kid will turn into.