Woman sentenced in road rage death of Zacharias Buob
About a year ago, we wrote about the tragic death of Chief Petty Officer Zach Buob, a 20-year veteran of the Navy, in a road rage incident. Darla Renee Jackson, 27, ran him down while he was riding his motorcycle in California. The LA Times reports that she was sentenced Friday;
Calling her behavior “outrageously reckless,” a judge on Friday sentenced a young woman to six years in prison for chasing a motorcyclist on two San Diego County freeways and causing the crash that killed him…Jackson, who was driving a Nissan Altima, pursued Buob at speeds reaching up to 90 mph and crashed into his motorcycle when the traffic slowed in front of them. Buob was thrown to the ground.
She ran over him as she swerved her car to avoid the fallen motorcycle. Buob died later at a hospital.
“Whatever the purpose, she chased. She sped. She followed too closely. and she hunted him down,” Deputy District Atty. Laura Evans said during the sentencing hearing.
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She got a whopping six years for what amounts to premeditated murder?
That’s beyond disgusting.
And will probably only actually spend 9-12 months behind bars due to prison overcrowding/lack of funding/good behavior, etc,etc.
I’ve never understood the whole prison overcrowding thing.
How much does it cost to fence in a plot of land, and then hand inmates a blanket and a shelter half?
Prison overcrowding occurs when fewer bodies are going out the backdoor than are coming through the front door. The attitude used to be, “Tough shit” but the courts got involved and started ordering prisons and jails not to double cell inmates if the cells weren’t designed for two, and to stop putting inmates on cots in the dayrooms and whatnot.
We must spend California tax dollars on more important things than law enforcement, such as building an almost high-speed train between Madera & Fresno and paying for luxury health care for illegal aliens who are registered to vote by democrat politicians even though they haven’t become citizens.
and pink “jammies” and a bologna sandwich…not much ask Joe Arpaio!
It’s Califruitsnnutz, under their latest revision of the penal code, is what she did even a crime of violence now?
She should have gotten 25 to life.
See below, UpNorth. Yes, it is.
Thx, these days, who can tell?
This is a travesty of justice. I rode for 40+ years and had to avoid many a Brain Dead Cager, but I never had one try to chase me down.
I did. Medford Square mid eighties.
Me on a wide glide. Him and a passenger in a car. Gave him the slip, got behind him and got a plate number. Contacted the Registry. Called him in for meeting. His dad showed up because the kid had exams at Norwich in VT. Dad got a scolding. The kid lost his license. I hope he became an officer and some Top Kick kicked his ass.
I did also. 1991. I was riding a Kawasaki 450 that was on its last legs. Didn’t have enough power to get out of its own way. Two assholes in a full size Blazer tried to run me down. I was chased down several streets through west central Phoenix. I finally got away after making several quick turns and going down an ally they could not follow. Same year got hit in the head (helmet) from a thrown rock while traveling down the freeway. Had to buy a new helmet as it crushed the one I was wearing. Later another driver threw an 8 inch square 1/2″ thick metal plate at me (same freeway different day). I got my foot up and bounced it off the sole of the boot.
Six years for premeditated murder is a joke.
She plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in January. The state did not offer her a sentencing deal. The plea was made in order for her to avoid a murder conviction. After the plea was accepted, the judge told her that she could receive 11 years but that he would probably give her up to six years. And that’s what she got, although, by her emotional outburst at sentencing, it’s clear she thought she was going to receive less. Now, in California, all buit violent felons who are good boys and girls in prison, serve half their sentences nowadays. In her case, however, she has to serve 85% b/c voluntary manslaughter is a violent felony. Somebody else can do the math. Don’t forget to subtract the time she has been incarcerated awaiting trial. That counts as part of the six years she received.
Quick figuring on the math:
Booked into jail without bail on 2 June 2015 (23 months ago)
85% of 72 months is 61 months.
61 minus 23 is 38.
So maybe all 38 months behind bars? Not likely. Out in 24 at the most.
She apparently thought she would get probation, not six years. I agree–she should have gotten the full 11.
The DA offered her the deal and she took it because she was forced in to a corner – face 15 to life or take the overcharged deal of intentional manslaughter and face a max of 11 and at least have some end date. She ended up taking their deal and admitting to something she didn’t do just so she would be home with her baby. She really had no choice with a Navy biased jury that is tainted by the biased media and and with the majority of evidence being too scientific for the average person to understand. Even the judge said is was an accident and at most gross vehicular manslaughter, but the judge has no say in the charges or the DA deals. Darla Jackson was maliciously prosecuted because Zach was in the Navy and everyone thought he was some great Spec Ops seal. No, he was only support and drove a little boat and many sailors can do that. Quit worshipping him because he was in the Navy. Many sailors enlist and go on many deployments and after 20 years end up being a CPO, but those other sailors don’t go out attacking random motorists like Zach did, road raging before he even got on the road. Before you make a judgement call, know the facts of the case and understand what Zach was doing while he was not acting Navy. He could have attacked you, your spouse, your mother, your kids. Even the judge lost it when he based the six year prison term on his feelings and not on the facts and evidence, trying to avoid a riot in the court hall. This was such BS because there were only pansies left in the hall. Zach Buob was the freeway terrorist and he attacked multiple motorists. Buob started the chain of events that led to his death. Seriously, who in their right mind pulls in front of a moving car and stops? Zach had every opportunity to NOT attack her, and after he did, he had every opportunity to pull over and give her… Read more »
Only six years? Voluntary manslaughter? Running down anyone on a bike and then running over him is hardly manslaughter. Where I come from, it’s called vehicular murder.
She had multiple chances to stop her pursuit of Chief Petty Officer Buob. That she didn’t speaks to her state of mind and the premeditation that led her to chase him in the first place. So, yeah, it’s First Degree Murder.
It is a real charge in this state, because the gangbangers have been doing things like that – intentionally using a vehicle to run people down – and the LEOs are not taking it lightly.
She bitch should be shot in the face. What a fucking injustice.
Fuck… oh, that right, it’s California.
Fuck her for what she did… should be spending life behind bars for what she did.
Naaaah. Just two in the brain housing group, and call it a day.
He said “the rest of her life,” not “the rest of her natural lifespan.” I think both of your recommendations could and should be implemented.
Were I a detective anywhere in her area, I would be looking extra-carefully at any unsolved “knocked down or ran over a biker/pedestrian/pet” and cross checking with any known repairs to her vehicle, etc.
People with a temper that bad, seldom take only one drink from the fountain of rage.
The PMS defense
I suppose California will also issue her a drivers licence upon release….
She will get knocked up in prison and released to her den (3-5 months) .
I have long said that if you really want to kill someone, but you don’t want to go to prison for the rest of your life, use your car.
If Darla Renee Jackson had pulled out a gun and shot Zach Buob dead in front of dozens of witnesses, she would almost certainly be looking forward to at minimum decades behind bars, maybe forever. (Even in California). But, instead, she used her car, so she will probably be a free woman not long after her 30th birthday.
Zach Buob, meanwhile, will still be dead.
RIP
From what I read it looks like the lady instigated the incident by speeding up to him on the interstate and deliberately cutting him off on the left lane.
I don’t know why but there seems to be this mentality that some drivers hate and are a-holes towards motorcycle riders. Why? I doubt this lady would have cut off a member of the Hells Angels or Mongols!
Bullies seldom target those they percieve as strong.
Having ridden motorcycles for 25+ years, I think part of it is that motorcycles (especially sportbikes) are generally faster than most cars (unless you’re driving a $1 million+ super-exotic). And some people (mostly young males, but all demographics are represented) really, really don’t like the idea that someone else is faster than they are. So they behave with unhinged aggression towards motorcyclists.
In the interest of full disclosure, I must note that some motorcyclists (again, mostly but not exclusively young males) ride like total douchebags, which gives a bad impression of motorcyclists in general.
Which is still no excuse for murdering somebody.
And they are deucedly hard to see.
And noisy. Automobiles get tickets for making less noise than some motorcycles.
Someday she will be sitting at a red light behind a dump truck and a car will slam into her rear end. Karma.
Or, she’ll jump the traffic light and accelerate into the intersection as it’s changing, while the double bottom gravel semi that can’t stop for the red gets to her spot in the intersection. So she can turn her head and stare at the grill of the Peterbuilt or Mack as it slams into her driver’s door.
If only she could be sentenced to having no car other than a Ford Pinto or maybe she could road rage herself into the path of an oncoming train as well.
Even better she should cut off a Hells Angels or Mongols member.
My hope would actually be that she never, ever drives a motor vehicle again, but I guess I’m an inveterate optimist.
Everyone is understandably pissed at the lousy six years she got. She was exposed to 11. The state didn’t promise her anything. She admitted that she voluntarily did what she did, which was to drive an estimated 93 mph on an off ramp, and when the motorcyclist ahead of her slowed for stopped traffic ahead, she didn’t, slamming into and killing him. That’s what she did. That’s what she admitted to doing back in January. Fast forward to sentencing and she gets six years. No one has said a word about the judge. No one has asked just who he is. Even the newspaper acct leads with reference to “a judge,” although it later identifies him. The local TV news and other sources don’t ID the judge. Why is that? Why is it that unless a judge is accused of political incorrectness, he is so rarely identified?
There’s a saying: ‘fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’
The first time an offender commits a crime, the fault lies with them alone. The second time they commit a crime, they share the blame with whomever freed them.
She committed murder using a 4,000 pound+/- weapon equipped with a fully automatic transmission, getting only 6 years? If that same scenario were done, substituting the 4,000 pound +/- weapon for a semi automatic weapon with 15+/- round capacity, ending in death, what would the killer have been sentenced to? Disparity?
Fucking bitch.
Ditto.
Excuse me ladies and gentlemen of TAH….
FUCK YOU TO DEATH EAT SHIT AND DIE 1,))) TIMES YOU SICK CUNT!!!
/fuck you Kalifornia tooo. Just drop into the sea already liberal bitch pussies.
1,000 X
Can’t even type I’m so angry
Take it easy ChipNASA. Six years was excessive considering Zach’s role in this accident. I would imagine one of the reasons Zach was out road raging was because his dad had just done a hit and run himself and now has a criminal record in Santa Clara county. I think Zach was mad about his dad hitting that young couple and then leaving his license plate behind at the scene. Zach was going to show him how to do hit and runs and get away with it so Zach took it out on San Diego motorists.
Ben, dude you are a fffng troll of the worst kind. Do all us a favor and take your left thumb and stick up your ass and suck it.
Surprisingly the judge didn’t just sentence her to time served.
The Chief was a well respected NSW Tech and known to many east and west coast Teams.
The killer will go on to a meaningless life in jail and thereafter no doubt be thrown back in on her first parole violation.
I hope she recieves a full dose of prison justice, I suspect she won’t be popular as her crime won’t qualify as prison cred.
Should have been at least 60 years !
Further proof that I made the right decision leaving CA.
The three most important words in that shithole are, “Me, me, me!”
POS doesn’t even rate the vaunted TAH “Cocksucker” tag. I had a harrowing escape and evade.in Chicago about 15 years ago when out training on my racing bike (bicycle). Some jocko and his drunk buddy though it would be funny to open the passenger door as they passed me almost knocking me into a parked car. They were shocked when I caught up to them 10 blocks later at a stoplight and dumped the contents of my waterbottle full of electrolyte drink in thedrivers lap. Needless to say “It was ON!” …. after several alleyways , blown stop signs and my heart rate at about 300bpm , yje douchebags shot out of the alley into the street right in front of a cop and just missed T-boning him.The cop hit his lights and I got the eff outta there as they had murder in their eyes and hopefully went to jail.
You need one of the handier and lighter bike accessories, the compact .380. Like a carbon fiber bike – polymer frame, a bit harsh in operation, but in the end very functional. Let’s be honest – you’re probably carting around extra pounds yourself like most of us so a pound extra is no big deal.
It is amazing how many bikers brag about damaging other’s property and getting away with it like you will score some points with the other jerks that do the same. What is wrong with you people? Seems you should not have been so close to his car and that way when he opened the door, it would not have been a problem for you. And why were you “training” on your racing bike on the main roads? Don’t they have a race track for that? Seems like you should have been the one to go to jail. Just saying …
All that said above, R.I.P. CPO ZACH BUOB
Two or three lessons here from what I see, one we need to start executing more violent criminals so the prisons aren’t so overcrowded while also eliminating private prisons.
The second lesson is that sometimes you can get killed for kicking the door of a car while trying to make a point…or more accurately, sometimes you can get killed for the slightest thing so choose the moments you want to engage someone else carefully. Especially while riding your motorcycle…sometimes you flip someone off, curse at them, whatever and they kill you in that moment. As much as we all think we’re prepared to defend ourselves the reality is that most of us don’t always recognize the exact moment we might need to be prepared to do that because we’re not aware that the person we’re engaging has decided to become a fucking maniac. I’m willing to bet Mr. Buob didn’t realize that cutting in line would get him killed that day. I’m not saying he did anything wrong, When a mom decides to chase and kill someone over some damage to a door, or a guy shoots some kids over some loud music, or a soccer mom chases someone with her gun out in her car over some words you begin to realize that our cars make us something other than what we think we are. I don’t know for sure what happened that day but something happens to us in our cars we become something ugly for the most part and that is a volatile and potentially dangerous thing at all times.
I suppose the third lesson is one we already know, our legal system and our ideas of justice are a fucking joke. A really, really bad joke in very poor taste.
You make excellent points – I ride every day for the most part unless it’s raining or snowing. I do have a very low tolerance for stupidity from cars. I have gotten caught up in the heat of the moment when almost ran over, thankfully the idiot in the car wouldn’t stop or I would probably have went to jail. Finally i gave him the salute and pulled away. I think about my fellow Chief and what he did that day in no way was punishable by death. Some people just hate motorcycles maybe it is envy or a negative experience with a rider but there is no reason ever to use your car as a weapon. 6 years is not enough.
All day long we’re on the same page, I was only suggesting that when you are on the vehicle with two wheels you lose pretty much every contact with the 4 wheeled vehicle should that vehicle decide to hit you, consequently no matter how tough you think you are it’s wise to remember you have more important shit in your life than a douchebag car driver. Our families need us, and I for one don’t want to miss my time withe them however limited it’s getting to be these days as I get older and older….
I’ve rolled on plenty of motorcycle T/Cs over the years, VOV, and you’re absolutely right. Very rarely does a rider walk away. More often than not, we’re trying to figure out which piece goes where. Most of the ones I’ve seen have been accidental, which just goes to support your point that riding two wheels with a motor is risky enough without getting into a pissing contest with some idiot who heavily outguns you in terms of gross vehicle weight.
That’s why I’ve never rode a motorcycle.
A heightened respect for the sensibilities of others and a little less ego, particularly when in a vulnerable position, can be a lifesaver. “I was right” or “I had the right of way” are small comfort as an epitaph.
Yep I agree, the last thing I need on my conscience is the life of some poor bastard just trying to enjoy his bike on the roadway. I love going fast, which is why I got into racing which is a controlled environment for as fast as you can make your vehicle go on any given race day.
Speeding and driving like a fool on the surface roads is what causes an awful lot of death in the USA. A few more people could benefit from your approach timactual.
Never liked riding a bike on the street. I can hurt myself, thank you very much, I don’t need the help of stupid, inattentive, or just malevolent motorists.
Dirt bikes, however, are the bee’s knees. Good exercise, too. And if you live in a place like Florida, plenty of nice soft dirt (no rocks) to play in.
The drunk driver, who hit me head-on as I was driving back to Fort Knox on a Saturday evening, said to the arresting officer, “why didn’t guy get out of my way.” The drunk was driving the wrong way on the highway.
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The general sentiment around San Diego County is that this cunt got off way too easy. Whenever she gets out, she might want to find a new place to live.
But, for what she did, she should be waiting for her turn to get a strapped to a gurney and pumped full of potassium. California still has a death penalty, and many of us would prefer to use it more often.
Perhaps we should bring back the ancient concept of “outlaw”.
“In historical legal systems, an outlaw is declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, the criminal is withdrawn all legal protection, so that anyone is legally empowered to persecute or kill them.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw
Legally Murder I would have been tough to prove. Murder II in California would have been easy in this case. She would have been a guest of the State for 15 years minimum if they had gone to trial.
That is why she plead out. Most DAs are going to do whatever they can to avoid a trial. If they know they have slam dunk most of the time they simply offer the next lower offense as a deal. This is why we have so many people in prison who are drug dealers for example but are “only” in for possession charges. Six years may not be right but is not abnormal.
Buob attacked a woman and then stopped in front of her car. This was suicide. He should not be honored for being a sailor..he used a young mother to kill himself. When he wasnt fooling you, he was road raging on the highways. Disgusting.