28 Years Too Late

[Madeline]

Judge Logan and Burnett mentioned in court Tuesday that Urso was drunk when he struck the back of a hay wagon containing women celebrating a softball victory in Bristol Township in 1982, killing Nadine Foster, 25, of Warren. Urso was 22.

“The overriding purposes of felony sentencing are to protect the public from future crimes and to punish the offender,” Judge Logan said, adding that Urso has been driving on a suspended license “for substantially the last 28 years” since the hay-wagon accident, for which he was sentenced to unspecified jail time.

Urso was arrested Jan. 31 in the parking lot of Monty’s Carry Out and Restaurant in Mecca Township after a concerned motorist followed him there while talking to 911 about Urso’s car, which was moving erratically — sometimes stopping in the road — as it headed north on Hoagland-Blackstub Road.

Urso’s blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.286 — more than three times the legal limit. Urso was convicted after a jury trial.

Labeling him a “danger to the community” and drivers across the country, Judge Andrew Logan ordered Keith Urso to spend 10 years behind bars for his 15th drunken-driving conviction.

“Apparently no prior sanction by any court has received your attention,” Judge Logan told the Warren man Tuesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

“Mr. Urso, you are a danger to the community at large and the citizens of the country who daily drive on our national highways,” the judge continued.

“Prior sanctions haven’t worked. Rehabilitation hasn’t worked. Short-term incarceration hasn’t worked,” he said.

Another Trumbull County Common Pleas Court judge sentenced Urso to one year in prison in 2006 for his last drunken-driving offense, prosecutors said.

Youngstown News, 15-time OVI offender gets 10 years in prison

This man should have been sentenced to ten years long ago, but I have a different question. Apparently he has not had a valid license since 1982, and therefore could not have been the legal owner of a car.

So who has been enabling him? He could not rent, and it doesn't sound as if he stole. If someone has been lending him their car, IMO that person needs to do jail time.

I also wonder why, since 1982, he has had the time to rack up 15 convictions.....how much time was he given on the homicide?

What say you?