I feel frustrated and sick over what they're going through

I just wanted to bring to everyone's attention a drunken driving case from Sanders County in which two teenage boys were run down and killed.

The driver had two previous drunk driving convictions and was driving home from a local bar where he was witnessed as being barely able to stand.

This all happened over a year ago and this person has been seen still out in the bars drinking.

A plea bargain was just reached between him and the district attorney, who happens to be a close friend to his parents and they are close to the judge.

Please remember, this is a very small town in Montana where it's not what you know, it's who you know. He was given one year of incarceration and various other conditions, such as a requirement to donate $100 to MADD every year on the boys' birthdays.

The parents of one of the boys are very close friends of ours.

They are from Kalispell and have been shut out of the entire process. They also have just received a letter from Sanders County to tell them what they can and can't say at the sentencing hearing. Example being that they can not say anything derogatory toward the judge, prosecutor or defendant or they will be held in contempt of court.

This whole sad experience is so unfair to a family that lost a member and there is no justice being done because the man who chose to drive drunk has connections to county officials who think that this is OK.

I just wanted let people know what this town is trying to sweep under the rug and not take action on a problem that is growing here in Montana, repeated DUIs with no consequences. I just feel so frustrated and sick when I think about what my friends are going through and breaks my heart, they are trying to get over the loss of a son and on top of that the justice system is letting the man who took him away go free with a slap on the hand!

Terry Eacker

Kalispell