{"id":182567,"date":"2026-02-18T06:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182567\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:38:56","slug":"san-francisco-judge-considers-no-jail-time-for-killing-a-family-of-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182567\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco judge considers no jail time for killing a family of four"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soft-on-crime<\/a> judges<\/a> are at the point where they decide that the biggest punishment for killing a family of four is the weight of one\u2019s conscience, and not any real punishment that secures justice<\/a> for the victims and creates deterrence for future criminals.<\/p>\n

The case in question took place in San Francisco<\/a>. In March of 2024, 80-year-old Mary Fong Lau\u00a0crashed<\/a>\u00a0her car<\/a> into a couple and their two young children, killing all four of them. Lau was driving on the wrong side of the road at 70 miles per hour, crashing into and killing the family as they waited at a bus stop.<\/p>\n

PRO-CRIMINAL JUDGES MUST BE REMOVED FROM THEIR POSTS<\/a><\/p>\n

The judge has decided, based on her age and \u201cremorse,\u201d that Lau will likely not serve any time behind bars. She is likely looking at, at most, three years of probation. She won\u2019t even be losing her driver\u2019s license. The real punishment, according to Judge Bruce Chan, is that she is \u201cgoing to spend the rest of her days living with the knowledge of the harm she has caused to others.\u201d (She has not been sentenced\u00a0yet, for whatever that may be worth).<\/p>\n

The reality is that this is not a punishment at all, because Lau has not shown any real remorse. She pled \u201cno contest,\u201d not \u201cguilty,\u201d\u00a0meaning<\/a>\u00a0she refuses to even take legal accountability for her actions and acknowledge what she did. Moreover, the family of the victims is\u00a0accusing<\/a>\u00a0Lau of moving around assets to avoid paying out money in a wrongful death lawsuit. Lau\u2019s attorney claims that the reorganization of assets, just months after the fatal crash, is just a coincidence.<\/p>\n

THE CONSTITUTIONAL OPTION: IMPEACHMENT OF ACTIVIST JUDGES<\/a><\/p>\n

What Judge Chan has decided here is that being old is a shield against the law. Lau\u2019s \u201cpunishment\u201d will be a brief probation where she isn\u2019t allowed to drive but will be allowed to get behind the wheel again at the age of 83. Her punishment of \u201cspending the rest of her days living with the knowledge\u201d that she killed four people means nothing because she wouldn\u2019t even legally admit responsibility for her crimes. Judge Chan sees her as a possible victim of the criminal justice system because she is old. In doing so, he ignored the actual victims, two parents and their toddler and infant children, who won\u2019t get to \u201cspend the rest of their days living\u201d at all.<\/p>\n

There is no justice here. No one is going to be made safer by letting this woman get behind the wheel in three years\u2019 time. We should not be making decisions about jail time based on age, as if a 40-year-old man who ran down a family of four while driving on the wrong side of the road at a dangerous speed has somehow committed more of a crime than an 80-year-old woman who did the same. This is the criminal \u201cjustice\u201d<\/a> system deciding that a dead family of four does not matter all that much, because the real victim is the person who killed them and might have a difficult time in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soft-on-crime judges are at the point where they decide that the biggest punishment for killing a family of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,6996,723,724,49719,719,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-182567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-criminal-justice","12":"tag-judges","13":"tag-justice","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","16":"tag-san-francisco-news","17":"tag-sf","18":"tag-sf-headlines","19":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}