I was just reading the story by Lee Hermiston in the Iowa Press-Citizen's morning brief that Johnson County Auditor, Tom Slockett was arrested for drunk driving on Sunday evening.
I have attached a link so that you can read the story in full.
The story says that this was his second DUI arrest in the last six years. I found it interesting that in his previous drunk driving arrest he was allowed to plead it down to speeding and pay a fine. Is that an option for everyone or just people who are connected, because I see a heck of a bunch of DUI's in the paper and they seem to all be found guilty of that charge, instead of a reduce charge such as speeding. I am sure if people know this is an option, more will plead to that charge, as it does much less damage to your insurance rates then does a drunk driving charge.
I have known young people who have taken the chance driving drunk after having tried to walk home and being arrested for public intoxication. I have always thought that this is ridiculous. Instead of punishing people for trying to do the safe thing we should encourage them to walk home.
How many times have we made the wrong choice, because we did not want to walk 30 minutes and increase the chances of being seen weaving down the sidewalk and instead jumped in the car and drove the 10 minutes home.
It shall be interesting to see how this plays out in court and whether Mr. Slockett shall be lucky enough to get another reduced charge or if making people aware of it will encourage the courts to forego that option. It seems like he did not take his first lucky chance and make a better decision than to drive drunk again. He is lucky he did not hurt anyone with his selfish behavior.
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