<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc66c332-e3cc-4521-ac6b-6e6fd11ab8c6/403EEEDF-12C0-4678-9CEF-AFD189C12D85/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1355088-which-is-facing-21-years-in-prison-the-drunk-rich-white-one-or-the-sober-poor-black-one" href="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1355088-which-is-facing-21-years-in-prison-the-drunk-rich-white-one-or-the-sober-poor-black-one" style="font-size: 11px;">digits.newsvine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1355088-which-is-facing-21-years-in-prison-the-drunk-rich-white-one-or-the-sober-poor-black-one"><H1 id="articleHeadline">Which is facing 21 years in prison — the drunk, rich, white one or the sober, poor, black one?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1355088-which-is-facing-21-years-in-prison-the-drunk-rich-white-one-or-the-sober-poor-black-one"><P>Two cars collided last Cinqo de Mayo. After a day of tubing, Laura Varker, 17, was intoxicated with a BAL of .09 which was not only over the legal limit but as an underage person, it was illegal for her to have any alcohol in her system. Her 15 year old friend, Felicia Edwards who was in the back of the Denali, was killed. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1355088-which-is-facing-21-years-in-prison-the-drunk-rich-white-one-or-the-sober-poor-black-one"><P>This tragedy turned travesty when Varker was charged with nothing. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1355088-which-is-facing-21-years-in-prison-the-drunk-rich-white-one-or-the-sober-poor-black-one"><P>But Bryant Wilkerson, a 28 yr old black postal service clerk, <I>was</I>. He was making a legal U-turn when the collision happened. In a panic, he fled the scene. "He would spend the next three months in Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail — in the maximum-security wing. His wife tried her best to raise bail, but $54,000 is a lot of collateral when you're a renter." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/403EEEDF-12C0-4678-9CEF-AFD189C12D85/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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