Augusta County Virginia (VA) Attorney DUI/DWI Attorney Bob Keefer: Who is guarding the guardians?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Ex-Seattle police detective Deana Jarrett, 55, briefly held the Washington State breath alcohol test record with a 0.47. This record was subsequently broken by a Pierce County woman who blew a 0.50. Blood alcohol levels of this magnitude are considered lethal doses of alcohol. Ms. Jarrett recieved a year in jail followed by three months of home detention for a series of DWIs, two of which involved car crashes. Ms. Jarrett cried in court, apologizing to the judge and the community while indicating that she was not a menace to society. Ms. Jarrett was a Seattle police detective for almost 20 years before leaving the Department. She subsequently worked for the Transportation Security Administration. Ms. Jarrett plead guilty earlier to two DWI charges and a reckless endangerment charge arising from a February 2007 car crash. She was also found to be in violation of a deferred prosecution for a 2001 DWI charge..Jarrett has already served more than 300 days in home detention and about 60 days in jail. She spent the past two weeks in jail after she apparently relapsed, breaking a court order to stay away from alcohol.
The Judge stated, “I think she struggles with a disease that has been winning,”
Hmmm…At least three DUIs involving two car crashes, two probation violations and a record 0.47% blood-alcohol level. What do you think your sentences would have been? Home detentions and work release programs? Or very long stretches of hard time?
Funny how prosecutors and judges suddenly see it as a “disease” when the drunk driver is a cop. Of course it’s a disease but where is that compassion when the defendant isn’t a cop or a politician?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pitogo/368741_dui28.html
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