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RIP Rebecca

A very sad story that brings to mind similar, sad memories.

RIP Rebecca
 
bigdood said:
Hopefully he will, but I've lost most (all?) faith in our legal system anymore. I mean seriously the guy already had multiple DUIs, WTF?? Some people are only alive because it's against the law to kill them.

RIP Rebecca. Didn't know you, but 19 and had a full life ahead of you. :rose
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Well, if he's really convicted of murder, he's definately doing time.
 
Thanks, Rel.

San Jose man guilty in student's 2005 crash death near Half Moon Bay
Bay City News Service
Article Launched: 11/08/2007 05:27:11 PM PST

REDWOOD CITY - A 49-year-old San Jose man was found guilty of murder today in San Mateo County Superior Court in connection with a 2005 crash south of Half Moon Bay that killed a University of California, Santa Cruz student, according to the district attorney's office.

A jury deliberated for about a day and a half before finding Mark Henderson guilty of second-degree murder for crashing his pickup truck head-on into a motorcycle being driven by 19-year-old Rebecca Seibenmorgen along state Highway 1 near Tunitas Creek Road on Oct. 1, 2005.

Henderson was arrested after briefly leaving the scene to dispose of methamphetamine and cocaine he had with him, according to the district attorney's office. Authorities found a small amount of cocaine in his possession, prosecutors said.

In addition to second-degree murder, Henderson was found guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence causing injury, fleeing the scene of an accident causing death, and drug possession.

He faces a possible life sentence with the possibility of parole, according to Deputy District Attorney Sean Gallagher.

During the trial, Henderson, a self-described methamphetamine addict, denied he had been under the influence of narcotics before the crash, claiming he had merely been extremely tired and sleepy.

Witnesses who had been driving behind Henderson's truck before the crash testified that he appeared to be weaving along the road and
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driving under the influence, Gallagher said.

According to Gallagher, Henderson has three previous DUI convictions, in 1986, 1988 and 1990, and as part of his sentence, attended several treatment programs and classes designed to educate about the dangers of drugs, and thus should have known full well the potential consequences.

"He consciously disregarded the safety of everyone even though he knew better," Gallagher said.

Though a murder charge is rarely brought in this kind of case according to Gallagher, "I think he's earned it," he said.

"In a situation like this, for somebody who has been on notice so many times, and continued to disregard all those warnings and all that education . . . that makes this death a murder," Gallagher said.

Gallagher said members of Seibenmorgen's family cried in the courtroom as the verdict was read.

Henderson's attorney John Halley, who had argued for a vehicular manslaughter conviction, was not immediately available for comment after the verdict.

A sentencing date will be set after Henderson's court trial on his prior convictions on Nov. 16, according to Gallagher.
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Why even waste our money on putting him in prison. Take him out back and put one (or two, three, four, shit a whole clip?) into his head and be done with it...
 
RIP:rose
I just wish that people could get stop having drinks and getting in their cars. I don't know when they're going to learn. I hate seeing these cases of drunks killing innocent people. I still see people all the time, who have a few drinks and hop in and drive because "they're fine," or "only have a short drive home" just take a cab or get a responsible DD. The driver should be in prison for life..
My condolences to the family.. :rose
 
RIP.

glad to see the legal system isnt taking it lightly... sad it takes 2 years, but thats how it is.
 
Thanks for following up on this, WackyIraqi.

But most of all, thanks to the legal system for going the extra mile on this poor excuse for a human. There is nothing that can be done to him that will create balance for the precious life he took, but it's a least some consolation to know he'll probably grow very old before he has a chance to walk as a free man. I only hope it's a rough, rough time for the dirtbag in the interim.

What a rotten thing to happen to that unfortunate young lady.

May she rest a little more peacefully, now. :rose
 
our justice system is way too lenient on DUI's. It's taken a lot more seriously in other countries and as a result people's attitudes toward it aren't so blase.
 
LS1Bandit said:
Three DUIs !?!?! How the heck does someone like that keep their driver's license? :wtf :mad
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Well put...

Thing is someone like him can drive intoxicated, kill, leave the victim and run wouldn't think twice about driving without a license. Why couldn't he have just driven his truck off the cliff all by himself?

They should put drunk drivers in a room and let the victim's families have at them.

Bless you sweet girl--:rose
 
Very sad. I don't know why I survived and she didn't.
rest in peace, young lady.

Edit: I realize this was older, just like me. So this was what was important to me, not the conviction.
 
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I didn't know her either but still my condolences to her family and friends. Rebecca , Godspeed to ya & ride on in heaven.

Finally some justice. I'm sick of hearing about how people kill and maim other people out on the roads with their utter stupidity, carelessness and in this case , blatant disregard for the safety of others. Then the legal system slaps them with citations ect. This guy deserved the murder conviction. We can only hope he gets a life sentence.
 
great news to hear he's going to be doing some serious time.

one question, though, is that i don't see how this was murder. i thought a murder conviction required demonstrating malice aforethought - a guilty mind intent on taking another's life. 1st degree is when it's pre-planned, 2nd degree is when it's an impulse (knifing a guy in a bar fight, etc). manslaughter is reserved for cases of serious negligence that result in another's death without the specific intention to kill, right?

unless it can be proved he intentionally swerved his truck into the path of another person, shouldn't this be manslaughter?

don't get me wrong - he clearly deserves to rot in jail. but murder?

either way, i'll feel just a little safer this weekend riding on 1.
 
ianian28 said:
great news to hear he's going to be doing some serious time.

one question, though, is that i don't see how this was murder. i thought a murder conviction required demonstrating malice aforethought - a guilty mind intent on taking another's life. 1st degree is when it's pre-planned, 2nd degree is when it's an impulse (knifing a guy in a bar fight, etc). manslaughter is reserved for cases of serious negligence that result in another's death without the specific intention to kill, right?

unless it can be proved he intentionally swerved his truck into the path of another person, shouldn't this be manslaughter?

don't get me wrong - he clearly deserves to rot in jail. but murder?

either way, i'll feel just a little safer this weekend riding on 1.
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It has to do with his long, long list of priors involving drugs, alcohol and vehicles.

In a nutshell, this guy has so many crazy DUIs and so much state-mandated education and (attempted) rehabilitation under his belt that the prosecution was able to convince a jury that he knew that his behavior would eventually kill someone and he did it anyway.
 
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