DENTON, Texas – Stephen Mole was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Denton County, just north of Dallas/Fort Worth after jurors found him guilty of intoxication manslaughter.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Mole must serve at least 15 years before he’s eligible for parole.
Marilyn Gates was the victim. She was a flight attendant who just barely missed being on aAmerican Airlines Flight 11 on 9-11.
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Lawmakers in Oklahoma have proposed a law that would require convicted drunken drivers to have a special mark placed on their driver’s licenses.
This proposed law is extremely jaded. Most individuals convicted of DWI are good citizens who at some point had a brief lapse in judgment. This law would only serve to punish a crime that is already severly overly punished as is. If we spent half as much time trying to come up with ways to stop violent crime, we might be able to prevent hundreds, even thousands more serious crimes every year.
State Rep. Scott Inman said the measure would serve as a deterrent to potential drunken drivers. I wonder if his tune would change if he or someone he knows was charged and possibly wrongly convicted of DWI.
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LAS CRUCES — Jose A. Gonzalez, 54, was indicted on his 10th DWI charge after being pulled over for speeding. The officer stated that this wasnt the first time he had pulled someone over for a 10th DWI.
The interesting thing about this particular DWI is that the arrest took place in the afternoon. Gonzalez was still intoxicated from the night before!!!
The arresting officer Herrera, who works on state police’s DWI patrol and has made hundreds of DWI arrests said nine or ten priors is not uncommon but he has seen more.
“I had a truck driver in 2002 with 23 priors,” Herrera said.
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DURHAM, N.C. – 18-year-old Josue Herrios-Coronilla was charged with driving while impaired and drinking underage when police followed a trail of dog poop.
An individual reported that someone had crashed into his yard. When police arrived they noticed crushed bushes, a damaged fence, an inoperable car – and a fresh shoe print in a pile of dog feces.
After following the trail, police asked a man to step out of a vehicle near the evidence trail. The man had dog poop all over his shoes and reeked of alcohol and was subsequently arrested.
If you have been arrested for an alcohol offense, call the Dallas DWI Attorney Mark T. Lassiter.
Rucks Russell of KHOU reports that based on interoffice memo’s, Texas DPS troopers have arrest quota’s for DWI along with many other offenses.
State lawmaker Garnet Coleman states that he is very concened as one of the memo’s essetially makes it clear that troopers need to arrest somebody for DWI or they will get the bad shifts.
The first of two memo’s instructed the troopers that they must file at least two criminal charges per week, and the second warns that unless at least 4 arrests are made for DWI per year, perfomance evaluations for that year will be poor.
Dr. Bob Walsh, a retired cop who teaches criminology at U of H Downtown, warns of the impact quotas can have on police. “What it does do is impact on their discretion.”
Additionally, a DPS spokesman said, “Texas Highway Patrol Division Chief Randy Elliston does not agree with requiring a trooper to file a specific number of charges for a specified period of time. However, he does support the proactive enforcement of the DWI laws.”
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