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I think it's more a case of some commenters on HN having more empathy with a person who they assume is like them (young, intelligent, privileged) then the people this drunk driver killed.
This comes across as a plea for affluenza.
Your father is responsible for ruining his life and making yours more difficult, not the prosecutor.
If he hadn't committed the crime, he wouldn't be imprisoned.
By your own description of events, there's not much brilliance, integrity, or goodness on display from him here.