If you are caught driving during
this time, you will face additional criminal charges and a minimum of an additional one year of jail time.
No exceptions.
I can see the shock on faces in this courtroom.
Some of you probably think I’m being too harsh.
Some of you probably think I’m not being harsh enough.
But let me tell you why I made this decision.
Madison Thornton needs to understand that her actions have consequences.
Real consequences.
Not consequences that her father’s $400 million company can make go away.
Not consequences that her lawyers can negotiate into nothing.
Real tangible consequences that will affect her life.
8 months in the women’s division at the ACI is a long time.
It is long enough to think.
It is long enough to understand what you have done.
It is long enough to hopefully emerge as a changed person, but it is not so long that it destroys
your life.
