In Florida and Texas, the courts are known to be pretty harsh on DUI and other offenses. However, at least one Texas judge and Florida prosecutor seem to have found ample due process and mercy in the handling of their own DUI cases. In Waco, District Judge Elizabeth Berry, 43, has been able to keep out the result of a blood test that showed that she was driving drunk. In Tampa, former Pinellas-Pasco prosecutor Lydia Wardell, 41, (known for her own unforgiving treatment of DUI offenders) avoided jail time for her second DUI arrest.
Berry has been able to fight on flaws in the search warrant used to obtain her blood. She was charged in November with misdemeanor DWI based on test results of a blood-alcohol over the DUI level of 0.08.
Now, it appears that the prosecution will be simply dropped and Berry, a former Tarrant County prosecutor, will be allowed to return to presiding over Criminal District Court No. 3 in Fort Worth.
For her part, Wardell has been through this DUI process before as a defendant. She was known as a prosecutor who showed little mercy in DUI cases. Yet, despite the fact that this is her second offense, Hillsborough County Judge Lawrence Lefler uses his discretion to waive jail time and sentenced her to eight months probation.
Her license is suspended for five years. She received 18 months of probation in 2005 after she was arrested for driving drunk with her two young sons in the car.
For the full story on the judge, click here.
For the Wardell story, click here.
raff,
Thank you. And I’m guessing some of both.
Great job Buddha! The Stalin line jumped out at me as well. Are these trolls just very young or uninformed?
This is purely rhetorical, but how stupid does one have to be to think Stalin was a liberal?
Fact countered by insult and inaccurate characterization.
F-
LOL! Buddha posts a buch of links to left left leaning web sites, “news” written by liberals, and government self protecting their own jobs documents as “evidence”.
LOL. Stalin would be proud of you buddha. Now go back to your basement and your magazines.
Water Safety:
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2009&itemno=56
Food Safety:
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Supply-Chain/US-consumers-blame-Bush-for-failing-food-safety
Schools:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032801794.html
Emergency Services:
http://www.dphhs.mt.gov/ems/emsnews/newsarchive/sixminutes01.pdf
Infrastructure:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/08/infrastructure_numbers.html
Answers provided in contradiction of fact.
Do your homework and try again. Why?
“Answer: Your saying it is doesn’t make it so.”
Infrastructure:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/08/infrastructure_numbers.html
Emergency Services:
http://www.dphhs.mt.gov/ems/emsnews/newsarchive/sixminutes01.pdf
Schools:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032801794.html
Food Safety:
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Supply-Chain/US-consumers-blame-Bush-for-failing-food-safety
Water Safety:
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2009&itemno=56
Why are our roads, bridges and power grid falling apart?
Answer: they aren’t.
Why are emergency services nationwide finding it more difficult if not outright impossible to do their jobs because they don’t have proper equipment and/or funding?
Answer: they aren’t.
Why can’t schools have an effective student/teacher ratio or proper safe facilities?
Answer: we already throw almost $10,000 per student per year at education. How many more thousands does it take to get kids educated?
Why are teachers buying their own class materials out of their own under paid pockets? Not student supplies. CLASS MATERIALS.
Answer: See the above. How many more thousands do you want to throw at the NEA waste called an education system in America.
Why is food safety ten times the issue it was ten years ago?
Answer: Your saying it is doesn’t make it so.
Why is water safety becoming an increasingly dangerous issue?
Answer: Your saying it is doesn’t make it so.
Buddha, go crawl back in your basement hole and wait for mom to bring down your lunch.
And corporations?
Here’s what they are good for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
They prove it more every day. Corporations are not people. They are a legal fiction that has been abused from their original intent of encouraging development to act as a shield for criminal actors. For examples, you don’t need history. Just read or watch today’s news.
Assertion: Bush Neocons did such a good job on infrastructure.
Why are our roads, bridges and power grid falling apart?
Why are emergency services nationwide finding it more difficult if not outright impossible to do their jobs because they don’t have proper equipment and/or funding?
Why can’t schools have an effective student/teacher ratio or proper safe facilities?
Why are teachers buying their own class materials out of their own under paid pockets? Not student supplies. CLASS MATERIALS.
Why is food safety ten times the issue it was ten years ago?
Why is water safety becoming an increasingly dangerous issue?
Well it certainly isn’t because the Bush Criminal Group had anything POSITIVE to do with it.
Rafflaw, I have to agree with Mark.
Bush did more for infrastructure by cutting taxes than any government “investing” (re: SPENDING) program the liberals have ever had.
Government doesn’t build roads; PEOPLE & Companies build roads.
Mark,
For your information, George W. Bush did nothing for infrastructure for 8 years so you are reeping what you sowed.
This Judge and prosecutor needed to taught a lesson and the Texas and Florida authorities, in their George W. and Jeb Bush style looked the other way. We shouldn’t be surprised at any result that comes out of Texas and Florida. The rule of law died there a long time ago.
I stand corrected:
Nearly 1,250,000 still without power in ice storm’s wake
february 1, 2009 9:20 AM (ET)
By BRUCE SCHREINER
(AP)
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) – Utility crews renewed work in subfreezing temperatures Saturday in their effort to put the power back on for over a million customers left in the dark by an ice storm, the worse in over 120 years.
Thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky awoke in motels and shelters, asked to leave their homes by authorities who said emergency teams in some areas were too strapped to reach everyone in need of food, water and warmth.
Dozens of deaths have been reported and many people are pleading for a faster response to the power outages. About 636,000 homes and businesses across Kentucky are without power.
AND WHAT DOES OBAMA DO? HE TELLS US TO LOWER OUR THERMOSTAT WHILE HE RAISES THE THERMOSTAT IN THE OVAL OFFICE TO 77 DEGREES. TODAY HE IS ENJOYING A LUXURY SUITE AND DRINKS ON THE TAXPAYER AT THE SUPERBOWL!
UNBELIEVABLE. WHAT MESSAGE IS HE SENDING TO AMERICA? THAT THE ANNOITED OF THE LAND DON’T HAVE TO SUFFER LIKE THE LITTLE PEOPLE? OH YA, ONLY LITTLE PEOPLE HAVE TO SUFFER AND ONLY LITTLE PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY TAXES, EH?
The same people that demonized several Bush nominees were on the morning talk shows today telling us what an honorable and honest man a tax cheat like Tom Daschle is.
500,000 people without power in the east, dozens of deaths, people freezing in unheated homes.
Obama turns the Oval Office heat up to 77 degrees and spends the day at the Superball hoisting $25 drinks paid for by taxpayers.
Shameful and I see the world and Americans are noticing.
This encourages people to cooperate and obey the law how? Another straw added . . .