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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 2620528, member: 1992"] [b]re: [Confirmed] Russell Packer --> Panthers[/b] The facts are this though. If you've done your time it's time to move on,for everyone. Sure,don't forget what a persons capable of but equally, if he no longer drinks and behaves as decent humans do then his past should be his past. I would hope he is a reformed man and remorseful. When I was a young man I had fights, down and dirty and in today's world not an unusual event but make me no mistake, I was trying to hurt the other individual . I wasn't however trying to kill them but that could have happened and for that matter, they me. Although alcohol does not excuse( Porthoz ) it does explain. It is certainly a reason why someone did something, in fact many on this forum owe their very existence to alcohol ! Although I'm not comparing the two acts, having a fight or having sex while drunk and consequently without inhibition can lead to totally unintended results. Packer may not have intended to do as he did. Serious abuse of alcohol can cause alcoholic blackouts where nothing is remembered and you can blame the person for getting drunk but how could you say a person intended to cause harm when their first intention was merely to become inebriated ? It is things like this that courts consider when deciding sentences as well as other things like a persons life leading up to the point of the crime. I'm not making excuses for Packer, I'm just pointing out some facts for consideration. [/QUOTE]

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