Andrew Gallo, the driver who killed Nick Adenhart and two others, is seeking leniency from the judge who will sentence him:

In court papers filed in Orange County Superior Court, attorney Jacqueline Goodman said her client, 24-year-old Andrew Gallo, was “not a monster” but was simply immature and the product of a broken home. She said his alcohol addiction led him to drink for hours with his stepbrother before blacking out and getting behind the wheel of the family’s minivan.

A person in their 20s should be mature enough to know the difference between right and wrong. Addiction is a terrible thing, and if someone wants to argue Gallo should be helped with his alcoholism more than hurt with a sentence, I would be sympathetic to that view. The maturity argument doesn’t sway me, however.