DUI driver sues driver she hit

[charlie]

BAC 3 times the limit, totalled the Lexus she was driving (not hers), and killed her boyfriend. Her daddy is a juvenile court judge. The two are pictured below:

Shelton had a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal limit, two tests showed. She was sentenced to eight years' probation and had to serve four months in jail.

Shelton, her family and the family of the boyfriend who was killed are suing for $20,000 for the destruction of the Lexus SUV she was driving and an undetermined amount for mental anguish, pain and suffering.

Bennett was driving the box truck that Shelton rear-ended on the Southwest Freeway near Kirby around 2 a.m.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6170554.html

[mike_c]

1. Words. Fail.

:wow:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Killing her boyfriend with her car? Is her last name Welch by any chance? n/t

[Deja Q]

10. Only if her first name is Raquel and/or has anything to do with grape juice

[Deja Q]

11. Only if her first name is Raquel and/or has anything to do with grape juice

[Deja Q]

3. Well, I will sue her because the agony I felt while reading it was excruciating.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Can I sign onto that?

[AnOhioan]

4. How come I get the sense the driver and her daddy voted McCain?

[varelse]

6. Hope she doesn't take anyone else down next time she does this

and there *will* be a next time for this one. Her family's attitude and her own sense of entitlement practically guarantee that she won't learn from the last time.

:(

[bertman]

7. This "judge" deserves to be bull-whipped, tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail.

And disbarred. If he's even a lawyer.

[MazeRat7]

8. Betcha she violates the terms of her probation and ends up serving out the sentence...

because apparently the gravity of her actions have escaped her and "daddy" which means there is little chance she will take her probation seriously.
Some folks don't learn until the very end, and often its that is too late.



Peace,
MZr7

[brentspeak]

9. "She told the nurse that her father, Pat Shelton, was a judge"

from an earlier article during her sentencing (slap on the wrist):

http://www.khou.com/news/local/houstonmetro/stories/khou071009_ac_shelton.15350e37c.html

Witnesses testified that Shelton cursed at the ER nurse who was taking her blood at the hospital after the crash. She told the nurse that her father, Pat Shelton, was a judge.

Shelton will be allowed to finish out the semester at the University of St. Thomas before reporting to jail the day after her last final on December 20.

She could have received up to 20 years in prison for the crime.

[Blue_Tires]

15. what an entitlement complex

that comes from 19 years of parental coddling and always 'fixing' situations when she stumbles into trouble...she's probably never had to deal with a real consequence her entire life...

I know I'm pissing in the wind because she has money and is relatively good-looking but I REALLY hope the nightly talking heads make as big a deal of this as they did for the undocumented Mexican who also killed someone in a DUI (here in VA)...he was made an example of -- given a max sentence (like 20 years) AND he will be deported if he ever gets out....

[charlie]

12. She cursed out the medical personnel who took her blood

Witnesses testified that Shelton cursed at the ER nurse who was taking her blood at the hospital after the crash. She told the nurse that her father, Pat Shelton, was a judge.



http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6170554.html

According to this guy, what she actually said was, "My daddy is a %$#^ judge!"

[tammywammy]

13. That's messed up n/t

[brentspeak]

14. Daddy Judge is a Republican with a corrupt background:

http://www.houstonpress.com/2002-06-20/news/old-ways-die-hard/

The law went into effect at the end of 2001. For the first five months of this year, the top seven attorneys receiving appointments by Shelton were George Clevenger, partners Glenn Devlin and John Phillips, Oliver Sprott Jr., Evan Glick, Kathleen Robbins and Dan Kundiger.

Republican Shelton is running for re-election against Democrat Teresa Ramirez -- and the early big contributors to his effort just happen to be six of those same seven lawyers. Shelton's campaign report covering last fall lists Devlin as contributing $4,500, presumably covering his law partner's share, Clevenger anted up $2,000, Glick $3,000, Sprott $5,000 and Robbins $1,000. Kundiger contributed only $500, but there's plenty of time before November to catch up with the pack.

Rewind to July 1, 1999, when the Houston Press feature "Bully on the Bench" focused on Shelton. It reported that Phillips, Devlin, Glick and Sprott were among attorneys participating in a controversial cash appointment system pioneered by Shelton. If defendants and families arrived in court without an attorney, Shelton would tell them to hire one of the lawyers present. The cash payment would be made in the hallway outside the court.

The small clique of attorneys has fed well at Shelton's court table. Latest figures show that, this year to date, the 313th has approved payments to Sprott of $70,186, more than $56,000 to Devlin and Phillips, $45,550 to Glick and $53,054 to Clevenger.

[charlie]

16. Oh goody

A mobbed-up sociopath who uses the law as a tool for power. He'll torment this poor trucker and will probably get away with it.