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You know what else would work in this guy’s favor? JAIL TIME!
In his defense he doesn’t remember the other 8 times. Plus he did have a good run of 10 years.
A clean driving record in the last decade does not wipe the slate clean for a ninth DUI.
9 DUIs, and he was still out there driving around. That only means that he was caught 9 times. For those of you that don’t believe in miracles, think about the fact that this guy hasn’t killed himself or somebody else.
Pull his driver’s license for the rest of his life. It’s only a matter of when, he will hurt someone. No more driving. Tell him to take the bus.
and what about seizing his vehicle, or charging the person who allowed him to drive theirs? He won’t stop until somebody dies.
The statistics will show that he’s more dangerous than a guy with a gun!! And, he won’t care if he has a license or not…he will find a way to drive…until he’s behind bars!!
They should charge people with attempted murder starting at the 3rd DWI. Or would that be too harsh? (no sarcasm)
“Upton’s most recent DWI conviction came in 2006, but that was for a 1998 offense in Brunswick County”…. so he (or his attorney) floated a single DWI charge through the courts for 8 yrs?! That’s about 96 court appearances, if you figure a continuance in one-month increments. The judge(s) need to be reprimanded. I wonder how many times he drove to court drunk? The Safe Roads Act of 2000 put mandatory sentencing on the books with pretty significant consequences for repeat offenders. This guy probably still doesn’t have an ignition interlock system, yet a person with one DWI that blows .16 or higher would have to get.
You’d be surprised at what “local boys” can get away with. If he was one of them there city boys, they would have slammed him good by the second time.
I believe the national statistic is that someone drives drunk 87 times before they get caught…talk about frightening…
He’s got to have friends in high places. The fact that he has nine offenses and seven convictions means no one has swept the tickets under the rug…he has had to appear. The judges are at fault or the legislature if they have not made jail time mandatory, regardless of time lapses. He has been caught nine times…I am sure there are hundreds of times-probably almost every day, unless he is too hungover to get out of bed-that he has driven over the limit. Guys like this should not be allowed behind the wheel…revoke, not suspend, his license…if he is caught for any violation or just on recognizance, mandatory 10 years, no parole.