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Lawrence Trujillo

Friday, August 31 at 2:00 PM

Linda Stanley of Golden writes:

I had watched with interest the interviews Lawrence Trujillo and his attorney gave recently when Mr. Trujillo decided to plead guilty to all of the charges against him relating to the accident that killed Frank Bingham’s family on November 10, 2006 (Rocky Mountain News 07/31/2007). In my opinion, his attorney was simply trying to influence Mr. Trujillo’s sentencing by making comments such as, “He’s a good guy with a good heart,” and “He wants to take responsibility for his actions,” implying what a good person Mr. Trujillo really is. But I’m not buying it. Here’s why: Mr. Trujillo, I have attended the motions hearings you have been putting Frank Bingham through for the last nine months. I watched you squirm each time you were caught in another lie. I watched you perjure yourself on the stand. It was inconceivable to me that you even made an attempt at mitigating what you had done. Your attorney said you wanted to take responsibility for your actions (Rocky Mountain News 08/06/2007); when did that revelation occur? Certainly not when you left the scene of the accident while a total stranger was attempting to breath life back into Garrison Bingham, or when you went to a strip club while Becca Bingham was in surgery fighting for her life. Maybe if you would have had that revelation sooner, you and Eric Snell wouldn’t have put Frank Bingham through more hell than he had already gone through because of you and your blatant failure to take responsibility for your actions That being said, I couldn’t help but feel compassion for you when you spoke about how sorry you were. I believe you when you said you have a Bingham family picture hanging in your cell. And I believe that you, as a father yourself, can somehow only imagine a sliver of the pain that Frank Bingham has been forced to endure. But most importantly, Mr. Trujillo, I believe that your life has value. You now have a tremendous ability to influence decisions regarding drunk driving laws and the power of addiction. You have true insight into the thought processes of a drunk driver, and you can possibly help lawmakers and other political influencers as to what legislation needs to occur to rid our streets of this hideous and shameful indignation. For your actions, Mr. Trujillo, you will need to pay the price and accept the consequences. But for your sake, I hope you will formulate an attempt to make the world a somewhat better place than what you have left it as of this very moment.
Good luck to you, Mr. Trujillo, and Godspeed.

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READER COMMENTS

There are times when I wished I believed in hell, god's lake of fire where humans are cast into just because they don't accept a particular god as savior. Here comes a time when I would enter an imprecatory prayer that Lawrence Trujillo be cast into the Jew and Arab's hell where a resident thereof when complaining of thirst has boiling water with the viscosity of oil poured down his throat.

Posted by Richard Grimes r22037@yahoo.com on September 1, 2007 12:00 PM