(Sorry I don't really spend time in this delightful forum so I don't know if this guy has been discussed before.)
Hey folks, remember Brock Turner? Remember Aaron Persky, the Stanford grad judge who sentenced Turner to just six months because he didn't want to ruin the young man's life? Remember Elizabeth Holmes? Remember Sam Bankman-Fried, son of Stanford law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried?
Well here's yet another Stanford-associated jerk.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/if-you-kill-two-people-in-a-car-crash-you-shouldnt-then-sue-their-relatives-for-emailing-your-university-about-what-you-did/
Hey folks, remember Brock Turner? Remember Aaron Persky, the Stanford grad judge who sentenced Turner to just six months because he didn't want to ruin the young man's life? Remember Elizabeth Holmes? Remember Sam Bankman-Fried, son of Stanford law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried?
Well here's yet another Stanford-associated jerk.
Quote:
In 2021 there was a car accident in Atwater California that killed a married couple, Pam and Joe Juarez. According to police reports at the time, a 20-year-old Stanford student, King Vanga, struck their car from behind. Here's how ABC 30 reported on the matter:
The California Highway Patrol says Pam, 56, and Joe, 57, were driving west on Santa Fe Avenue approaching Spaceport Entry in Atwater. They were just minutes away from their son's house. Officials say that's when 20-year-old King Vanga collided into the back of their car at a high rate of speed. The Juarez's died at the scene. Vanga had minor injuries was booked into the Merced County Jail for driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol and vehicular manslaughter.
The family of Pam & Joe Juarez were understandably upset by their death, and a few family members sent emails to Stanford to alert them to what had happened, and alert them that they did not feel that Vanga had live up to Stanford's code of conduct.
Vanga, somewhat incredibly, has decided to sue the family members of the couple he killed, claiming that their emails to Stanford were defamatory, because (a) they mention the DUI based on the police report and public reporting and (b) some of them said he "murdered" their family members, rather than merely killing them.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/if-you-kill-two-people-in-a-car-crash-you-shouldnt-then-sue-their-relatives-for-emailing-your-university-about-what-you-did/