DUI gets caught red handed, then cleared by a Judge!
Jul 29, 2015 7:25:55 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 7:25:55 GMT -6
I am going to guess there are at least a couple people here who have had the unfortunate experience of living through a DUI arrest and the process which follows. I've never had the experience myself, but I know more than I'd like to admit who have. It is a life changing thing, as I saw in a traffic school I attended years ago. Many of those with me were DUI cases, while I was in for a Kentucky Super-Trooper getting greedy over 5mph over the limit. What struck me the most tho was....my day was done when that Saturday class ended, and my troubles were over. The DUI cases were just starting a process the instructor assured everyone would exceed $10,000 by the time fines, fees, legal costs, class costs and lost work was totaled up for the whole, ugly thing.
In our state, like most? If you are tagged on a DUI...you're basically toast. Unless they made a true mistake? Pleading guilty may make life easier on everyone, for how FEW ever get away with it.
Damn..if only people knew. You can drink, drive and have the time of your life in Tennessee. All you need is a local political post and a judge corrupt enough to bounce a MAJOR charge for what looks to be political favoritism. Fortunately...not everyone in Tennessee agrees that is 'cool', or we wouldn't have a video to show how bad this example is for Judicial Corruption, in my humble opinion.
Sounds reasonable so far. Drunky gets drunk. Drunky drives. Drunky gets tagged, bagged and put away...just as they need to be. So far? So good! (with pics to prove it!)
Then....a Judge happened...
So would Judge Drunky have figured running someone down was enough? Hitting a telephone pole perhaps? Dancing naked in the street?? Just, precisely, WHAT does it take for some to see drunk as drunk, and particularly when the blasted politician here was OBVIOUSLY blasted after the cop followed his hunch, based on bad driving ..to see how drunk he really was. Looks like a slushy jackpot for the cop! ..but again...Judges can go bad, I guess..
This politician also has a history of being treated quite well by the local courts....
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Now that is pretty neat right there! You can be outright wrong, perhaps in violation of the law for residency in being an office holder ...but win the election and the questions of legally being able to run at all just fade away like a fart in the wind.
Now that is what I call the best system money and influence can buy!
**Don't drink and drive in Tennessee.....unless you hold some poilitical office and have a friendly Judge, that is.
(Sorry for the double post, for those who saw the first one... PB's editor picked up an attachment and seems to leave no method for removing...something that really shouldn't even BE possible.
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In our state, like most? If you are tagged on a DUI...you're basically toast. Unless they made a true mistake? Pleading guilty may make life easier on everyone, for how FEW ever get away with it.
Damn..if only people knew. You can drink, drive and have the time of your life in Tennessee. All you need is a local political post and a judge corrupt enough to bounce a MAJOR charge for what looks to be political favoritism. Fortunately...not everyone in Tennessee agrees that is 'cool', or we wouldn't have a video to show how bad this example is for Judicial Corruption, in my humble opinion.
Metro police released video of state Rep. Carson "Bill" Beck's DUI arrest after his case was closed Tuesday, when judge dismissed charges against the Nashville Democrat.
The more than 90-minute video starts when Officer Bradley Nave spots a pickup being driven partially in a center turn lane on Woodland Street in East Nashville. It ends with Beck being booked into the Criminal Justice Center downtown.
The more than 90-minute video starts when Officer Bradley Nave spots a pickup being driven partially in a center turn lane on Woodland Street in East Nashville. It ends with Beck being booked into the Criminal Justice Center downtown.
Sounds reasonable so far. Drunky gets drunk. Drunky drives. Drunky gets tagged, bagged and put away...just as they need to be. So far? So good! (with pics to prove it!)
Then....a Judge happened...
On Tuesday, Cheatham County Judge Phillip Maxey dismissed Beck's DUI case saying straddling the lanes was not enough evidence for the officer to stop Beck. Maxey was brought in to hear the case. Police released the dashcam video Tuesday after it was requested by The Tennessean.
So would Judge Drunky have figured running someone down was enough? Hitting a telephone pole perhaps? Dancing naked in the street?? Just, precisely, WHAT does it take for some to see drunk as drunk, and particularly when the blasted politician here was OBVIOUSLY blasted after the cop followed his hunch, based on bad driving ..to see how drunk he really was. Looks like a slushy jackpot for the cop! ..but again...Judges can go bad, I guess..
This politician also has a history of being treated quite well by the local courts....
His residency was challenged again when citizens filed a lawsuit in October against the commission in Davidson County Chancery Court. The court dismissed the case in late November, after Beck won the election, according to court records.
Now that is pretty neat right there! You can be outright wrong, perhaps in violation of the law for residency in being an office holder ...but win the election and the questions of legally being able to run at all just fade away like a fart in the wind.
Now that is what I call the best system money and influence can buy!
**Don't drink and drive in Tennessee.....unless you hold some poilitical office and have a friendly Judge, that is.
(Sorry for the double post, for those who saw the first one... PB's editor picked up an attachment and seems to leave no method for removing...something that really shouldn't even BE possible.
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