When the DAG showed up she says to the DAD "you just had surgery and
shouldn't be driving after taking those painkillers." Uhhhh....
okeedokee then...
I told my lawyer and he just rolled his eyes and said if we go to trial
we will subpoena his medical records and drill down on that issue. We
decided against pursuing the more serious charge as the DAD shyster said
"No South Carolina jury will convict a driver of hitting a bicycle
rider" and unfortunately my lawyer agreed with that, even though it was
clear DAD was totally in the wrong. There wasn't a lot to gain, other
than some satisfaction, from chasing that charge, so we let it go.
--FT
On 6/9/21 11:01 AM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
Happy "I lived through that" Birthday !
Congratulations on winning. As you describe the dumbass girlfriend, it's
too bad the officer did not add a charge of "distracted driving" while
"impaired".. [mentally impaired surely must count against the ability to
drive safely.]
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:38 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
the 13th anniversary of getting hit while riding my bike by a dumbass
(whose name was "Lance Leopard") driving a Sprinter van (Mercedes
content!). I ended up getting the first conviction under the new (at
that time) SC bike law, the lawyer who helped write the law was my
abogado, he was quite enthused at the proceedings. I had to get the
deputy who responded to rewrite the charges as she did not know about
the bike law. Case was heard at out local magistrate's court after some
few months, dumbass plead guilty to one count and we decided not to
pursue the other in a jury trial.
I ended up getting some money from his insco, covered some medical stuff
and some left over that disappeared into the former wife's accounts
somewhere I never figured out. On another aspect, I called her to come
collect me after the incident, she showed up and after consulting with
the EMTs on medical aspects, was speaking to the deputy who was standing
there, and the dumbass driver's dumbass girlfriend mouthed off to Dr.
wife about something, that was escalating rapidly, I pointed this out to
the deputy and suggested she might want to intercede in that exchange...
Interestingly enough I was at a community meeting last evening and the
judge/magistrate was there, he has been retired for a coupla years now.
Didn't get a chance to speak with him, but we have spoken a few times
since then, seeing each other at various meetings and he is a good
friend of another friend, and he remembers me and the case and was
pleased I think to mete out justice under that law for the first time.
Plus the dumbass and his low-rent shyster were annoying.
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--FT
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