This is where mandatory minimums always come down and it reminds me of the old law school expression audi alteram partem, I have the other side of this than you do.
There are two other sentencing principles that are often not discussed at all, and one is denunciation and one is protection. In talking with my constituents, which is how I help formulate the law... A totally avoidable crime like the case of the Neville-Lake family is so egregious when it comes to moral blameworthiness, I think those pillars of the sentencing principles should be examined in far more detail, because society created these laws in 1921 and updated them almost every decade in response to increasing societal disgust with the loss of life attributable to something that is absolutely avoidable.
This is not a crime of passion or anything like that. This is absolutely avoidable. In 1969 the 80-milligram level was introduced as a testing feature. Would you not agree that now that there are more ways that can deter, denounce and protect the public, they should be considered, including the randomized Breathalyzer testing?