About time

These types of case are among the most tragic our office sees," DeKalb County Solicitor-General Sherry Boston said in a release about the hearing..... Really? The most tragic type of case & he gets 3 years? So in Dekalb County in the "most tragic type of case" you get a whopping 1 year sentence per person that you kill... Un-freakin-believeable..

I agree Brian.

5 Years for 3 lives... I don't understand this math...

WTH???

DeKalb is very fortunate to have elected officials like Solicitor Sherry Boston and DA Robert James. However, it sometimes seems that our courts system does not do all it can and everything possible to back them up. It often seems that the guilty party receives more consideration from the bench than do the victims and the hard work put forth by the prosecutors. Unfortunately, most voters make no attempt and have
no clue of how to make themselves aware of which elected officials do everything within their power to pursue equal justice and represent the best interests of victims and their families as fairly as that of the guilty.

With the utmost respect for the dead, injured and their families, I've been praying for them all since the wreck happened. Jim Miles is a man who made a horrible mistake in operating his vehicle that day. Perhaps, if you knew the man and worked with him for years, like I did, you would have a different perspective. He's only been married for 4 years. He and his wife teach the 3-year olds Sunday School in their church. He's a brilliant singer in the choir and musician. He loves Jesus and he's in for the test of his life being in prison. Not that the Ga Power employees and their families haven't been through absolute hell since that day, I know they have and I'm still praying for them all. I am just sick about this and I keep having to tell myself that God has amazing work for Jim to do in prison because solid, working, upstanding, God-loving citizens don't go to prison, right? Not!! With a very heavy heart, I realize that any one of us upstanding citizens, at any moment, could be in exactly the same situation with one wrong move in a vehicle and that is so scary.

With all due respect to you Leisa, I disagree. I am an honest upstanding citizen and doubt I would be going to jail for one wrong move in a car. This was series of wrong moves that were absolutely inexcusable. It wasn't a simple mistake. He recklessly took his life and a van full of others into his hands when he drove with absolute disregard for anyone in his vehicle that day.

I wish they had done more. This sets a bad example for the multitude of other careless and reckless drivers out there on the road. He deserved a much harsher punishment. Three people are dead. DEAD because of his actions.

I pray for the families as well. I worked and cared very much for Ollie. He was faithful man of God as well. With beautiful children and a wife that miss him dearly. Friends who miss him and know he will never be back. Because of THIS man.

I'm with you, Leisa. I'm certain Mr. Miles didn't get out on the road that day planning this horrible event! I've met him and know his wife and daughter and they are precious Christian people. We lost our 28-year-old daughter in a "hit-and-run" accident several years back and we will never be the same; however, I have forgiven the guilty party, whoever he or she is. First of all, I have the comfort in knowing, as a born-again child of God, that my precious angel is in Heaven never to suffer again with Jesus and that someday, soon perhaps, I'll be reunited with her for all eternity. The Bible clearly tells us that we are to forgive each other; and if we can't or won't, then we shouldn't ask our Heavenly Father to forgive us because He will not. I will continue to pray for the victims' families and Mr. Miles and his family. Matthew 7:1: Judge not, that ye be not judged. Here Jesus warns against condemning the actions or motives of others. Only the Lord has the right to condemn since only He has full knowledge of a person's actions and motives (John 5:22; Romans 14:4,10).

thcooper69 and wps - I'm going to delete both these comments. The first because I didn't see it previously, and it is against our terms of use.

i drive 78 east alot from midtown ,these vans carring many heads in them ,weave in and out of traffiks with out blinkers cutting of cars left and right ,i paced myself with vans occasinally and we were doin 86 in a 55 . there were more than 12 people in van . it had mlb on side of van and eventually later turned into snellville oaks plaza .
most of the drivers i see driving are on there cell phones blabbin .

Reading some of these comments makes me sick that some people can defend a man who through his Charles's and irresponsible acts killed 3 people. I was lucky that my mother Chris Ellis survived this horrible accident, but before I learned that she had survived I was told that she was dead 3 different times. I don't think many people know what it feels like to hear those words. This so called "Christian" man should not have his friends hide him behind a bible. 5 years is too short of time to pay for taking 3 lives and forever changing my life and the life of my family. I could say many horrible things but I will refrain, but I hope that this monster of a man suffers the pain he has put me and my family through until his last breath. I can never forgive this man for the horror I was put through on October 13, 2009.