Shin Hye Sung pleads for leniency for depression and panic disorder

Article: 'Drunk driving' Shin Hye Sung pleas for leniency at prosecution demand for 2-year sentence... "suffering from depression and panic disorder"

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1. [+290] Not everyone with depression and panic disorder go out drinking and driving. If this holds up in court, then will everyone who suffers from a bit of depression be able to plead for leniency for all their crimes too?

2. [+195] What does your depression and panic disorder have anything to do with you drinking and driving...

3. [+187] Just because you have depression and panic disorder doesn't mean you get to drink and drive.. your excuse doesn't hold here

4. [+116] Drunk drivers should not be allowed to plead for any leniency. If anything, the law should be even harsher on them. 

5. [+121] Please just quietly take yourself into jail

6. [+29] Always with the depression whenever celebrities get caught up in anything. Really makes the rest of us with depression feel bad, no?

7. [+28] Even two years is too short

8. [+24] These celebrities come up with way too many excuses every time they get caught for drunk driving. So many innocent people have died at the hands of drunk driving, none of these excuses should be allowed. 

9. [+14] And what does that have to do with drunk driving? 

10. [+9] People who are actually suffering from depression and panic disorder do not want to make it so obvious like this.. It's a mental illness that's difficult to open up to others about. For him to claim it so naturally makes me think he doesn't actually have it. 

11. [+7] Why make any excuses at all? ㅡㅡ Since when was depression or panic disorder the type of mental illness that made you think drinking and driving was okay? Your mental illnesses have nothing to do with your punishment for drunk driving...

12. [+11] Please just quietly go, don't taint the other Shinhwa members with this

13. [+2] Wow, with his logic, I suppose we should ban driving for everyone suffering from depression and panic disorders..

14. [+17] Please stop making the bias worse for others with depression and panic disorder and just stay quiet. Own up to your crime and serve your sentence. 

15. [+4] Nothing can justify drunk driving!

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