Driver Who Killed Dixie Chicks Founding Member Sentenced to 15 Years

She also had an issue with her hearing. She did an interview with Cmt I believe it was many years ago for a special. I don’t 100% exactly remember the circumstances of it just know it was an issue. It may have only shown itself with bigger venues as the star power or direction of the band started to rise. Someone may even chime in that knows can explain it better than me most likely.

So here’s an article about a man who is sentenced to prison for killed a woman via reckless driving. And the framing and all of the quotes are (rightly) in sympathy of the victim, who happens to be a person of relevance to this site..

Yet immediately below is an article concerning a man, JD Graham, who less than ten years ago was sentenced to prison for recklessly driving into an killing a motorcyclist while high on synthetic drugs. And the framing and quotes in that article are wholly in sympahthy with the person who committed the crime, and is relevant to this site. [The fact that there was a victim who was killed is literally not even mentioned. I unscovered it via Google.]

Like screenwriters, we pick our protagonist, and other characters are only worthy of the audience’s sympathy if we choose to flesh them out and make them important.

I appreciate your instinct to aggressively scrutinize every single thing published to this site. Don’t think for a second that it did not cross my mind that these two stories were being published back to back. In some respects, I wanted to publish them back to back. Though in truth, this is just more of a coincidence that both stories broke at the same time.

However, your implication of, “And the framing and quotes in that article are wholly in sympahthy with the person who committed the crime, and is relevant to this site…” is completely irresponsible, and frankly opportunist and insulting. “This site” did not show “sympathy” to JD Graham for killing someone in a vehicular accident. Nor did it try to hide that fact. This site showed sympathy for someone who almost lost their life a couple of days ago, who previously was involved in a vehicle fatality, was sentenced to five years in prison, and used that opportunity to rehabilitate his life. I believe in forgiveness for everyone, including Domenick Chavez, and I hope he can use his time to rehabilitate, and present a positive story for faith and redemption just like JD Graham does. But they are two souls at two different points in that redemption cycle. That is why their stories were presented differently.

And for the record, I have reported on musicians who have killed people in auto accidents, and the complexities of these matters. Kylie Rae Harris killed someone in a car accident. She also killed herself in the process, paying the ultimate price for her mistake. Connor Smith killed a woman at a crosswalk. Those charges have since been dropped at the behest of the bereaved family. Trying to oversimplify, or conflate these events is unfair to the complexity of these matters.

I think you’re taking it way to personally. I’ve said many time that I respect what you do here. I make it a point to avoid saying anything against you personally, unlike people who accuse you of being a liberal stooge or a right-wing stooge or woke or racist etc.

And if I were responsible for writing the whole site, instead of just picking spots to sharpshoot at, I’m sure I’d mess up a lot more than you do.

I just made the comment because the juxtaposition jumped out a me. I noted that it’s a commonplace thing to choose our protagonist and make him/her the center of the world, There’s even a Todd Snider song that came to mind.. I’m sure I could find it with a little Googling and lyric search. something along “After all the undeveloped characters” are killed or maimed, etc …, (and the viewers don’t care about them), the hero makes everyone happy.

I never heard of JD Graham until now. Along with expressing sympathy for his current predicament, I thought it’s worth mentioning that he actually killed someone (not deliberately, but still criminally) some 9 years ago in another vehicular case, so I did.

I’d also probably do a follow-up on the accident that just happened. We have a statement that essentially says he was driving along, minding his own business, when his vehicle was hit by a truck. And knocked into another truck. That statement comes from his daughter. Nothing against her, but I’d like to see what the police report says. (It would not surprise me if the facts are different.)

At least there’s some closure on Ms. Lynch’s tragic death,as Sr. Chavez will have 15 years behind bars (and the rest of his life if he doesn’t die in prison) to think of his recklessness. Wonder if the Chicks will reform with a new,errr,chick ?

This touches on a pet peeve of mine – it’s way too easy to get away with being a dangerous driver. We call it an accident, but rarely is it genuinely an accident. Usually, it’s the horrible but predictable results of someone actively making bad decisions. This guy had two DWIs and was driving on a suspended license, he’s going 110 or so trying to pass 4 vehicles at once? Calling it reckless driving makes it sound so minor, this is so much more than being a little reckless. If he hadn’t killed Laura Lynch, he clearly would have killed someone. What an asshole.

Agreed there is a big difference between this and someone who maybe missed a stop sign, or didn’t t see an oncoming car and pulled out into its path.
In my opinion this was vehicular homicide and deserved a harsher sentence. I wonder if that’s what he was facing had he gone to trial.

As usual someone dying doesnt mean anything. 15 years means the guy will prob be out in less than 5 if that. If i remember right i believe this guy was an illegal but i could be wrong. I dont think that plea deals should be a part of things unless the evidence is iffy. This seemed like a cut n dry case,should have got 25 to 40 minimum.

Source: savingcountrymusic.com