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Related: About this forumTexas drops DWI charge against Wal-Mart heiress
BENTONVILLE, Ark.
Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.
Officials said Monday that the highway patrol officer who pulled over Walton has been suspended and won't be available to testify.
Parker County, Texas, Prosecutor John Forest told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://is.gd/4WDwlt ) that his office had two years to pursue the case against Walton. But the trooper's suspension won't be over by the Oct. 7 deadline.
Forrest said the trooper is on paid leave. The suspension for alleged misconduct began in February.
More at http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/alcohol/drunken-driving-charge-dropped-against-walton/nZrsG/ .
[font color=green]Oops, sorry that I missed the story a couple of weeks ago. I must have been high or something.[/font]
leveymg
(36,418 posts)buy.
I feel for the trooper and his family. His fault for not recognizing her last name before it was too late.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)What's wrong with this picture? Wonder what the Trooper did, jaywalk?
TexasTowelie
(111,966 posts)I will give her credit for looking better than some of the mug shots of meth addicts that are a couple decades younger than her though.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)Looks like something from Tales From the Crypt. Whatever dog dug that up needs to go back to obedience school!
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Looked around and didn't find anything.
A few, more detailed articles here...
http://weatherforddemocrat.com/newstoppers/x789522326/With-trooper-suspended-Walton-DWI-dropped
http://blogs.star-telegram.com/crime_time/2013/09/parker-county-prosecutor-explains-why-two-years-passed-on-walton-case.html
dgauss
(882 posts)"The unethical thing would have been to proceed without evidence."
Good thing this is about ethics and not money and privilege.