Alleged drunk driver hits judge he faced in 1998

[Nagishkaw 510]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100412/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_drunk_driving_judge_hit;_ylt=A0wNdPRUucNLyWIB4hTtiBIF;_ylu=X3o

ROCKVILLE, Md. – A man has been charged with driving drunk and hitting the car of a retired Maryland judge who once spared him jail time in previous drunk driving case. The suspect, 45, was scheduled to be in court Wednesday to face trial on eight charges related to the August crash where he hit a car being driven by retired Montgomery County District Judge Edwin Collier. Collier, 86, and his wife Ellen Collier, 82, were both injured in the crash.

Collier presided over a case in 1998 in which police charged the man with drunk driving after an officer saw his car idling in a parking lot and gave him a sobriety test. He pleaded guilty in that case, and Collier spared him jail time, even though the man had been arrested on drunk driving charges twice in three months.

[Fandango 1,440]

Drunk drivers get no sympathy for me, nor should they get any 'breaks' by the law. My friend was killed by one in the most horrific way...and they guy that killed him had hit a police car while drunk driving a few years before and got a slap on the wrist. Had he had the book thrown at him, perhaps my friend would be alive today.

My childhood bff died while drunk driving too. Had 3 people in the car with her as well. One girl wound up brain dead.

Actually, now that I think about it, I know several more....too many people affected by this, and the perps get no clemency from me.

[alienlovechild 75]

Karma?

[Pooky 3,843]

Karma?

For both the driver and the judge