ohio supreme court judge dui?

Pyromaniac

Well... if anyone can pull a few strings I'd bet she could.

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A state Supreme Court justice drove off without permission after being asked to take a sobriety test, police and State Highway Patrol officials said.

The officers had to go after Justice Alice Robie Resnick and pull her over on Interstate 75 near Bowling Green in northwest Ohio on Monday.

Resnick, 65, of Toledo, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and driving outside marked lines, said Lt. Rick Zwayer, a patrol spokesman.

Resnick failed field sobriety tests, including registering an alcohol level of 0.216 percent on a portable breath test administered at the scene, according to a patrol report. The blood-alcohol legal limit in Ohio is 0.08.

She refused to take an official evidentiary Breathalyzer test when she was taken to a patrol post and her driver's license was suspended for a year, although a judge can revise the suspension to a shorter period or up to three years.

The portable breath test is not admissible in court, Zwayer said.

A message seeking comment was left for Resnick, who did not attend court hearings Tuesday on a death penalty case and a medical malpractice case. Resnick, a justice since 1989, is the court's only Democrat.

Messages also were left for state Supreme Court spokesman Chris Davey and Resnick's attorney Sheldon Wittenberg.

Authorities said they received several calls Monday about a driver weaving across lanes on Interstate 75. A Bowling Green officer and a highway patrol trooper approached the vehicle after finding it parked at a gas station off the highway.

Resnick identified herself when the authorities approached but refused to take a field sobriety test.

"I informed her that she was not free to go," Bowling Green Police Patrolman Mark Hanson wrote in his report. "She thanked us, rolled up her window and drove off."

The officers followed her back onto the highway and pulled her over in her state-owned 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

"I've not been drinking," Resnick says on a tape of the stop released by the patrol. "I've always said a Supreme Court justice should have a highway patrolman drive them."

A state trooper wrote he noticed "a strong odor of alcohol" on her when they pulled her over.

Resnick's husband, former 6th Ohio District Court of Appeals Judge Melvin Resnick, told The (Toledo) Blade that his wife was "very, very upset."

"She had recrimination problems last night," Melvin Resnick said Tuesday. "It's just a bad incident."

Court officials said there is no automatic disciplinary action when a justice is charged with driving under the influence.

Resnick, who previously served as an assistant county prosecutor, a municipal judge and a state appeals court judge, has voted in a handful of drunken driving cases with the Supreme Court.

In 1996, for example, she wrote the majority opinion in a case that said police do not have to tell people suspected of drunken driving that they have the right to a second, independent blood alcohol test.

Her arrest came just days after the conclusion of a long-running court battle over an unsuccessful attempt by business groups to unseat her in 2000. On Friday, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce was forced to disclose who contributed to the advertising campaign.

Faced with $25,000 in daily fines, the chamber complied with a court order by providing a list of 383 donors who gave $4.2 million to a chamber organization that raised money to defeat Resnick.

Business groups dislike Resnick because of votes she cast that went against the insurance industry and companies trying to limit personal injury lawsuits.

The campaign included a television ad showing a female justice changing a vote after bags of money are dumped on her desk.

Since Republicans regained control of the court in 2003, justices have made a handful of rulings that businesses say are more favorable to their interests.

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Interesting to say the least,

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Flailing Homosapiens

I'm always amazed when people are so surprised that people like Judges and Priests and well, the President even, make mistakes.

He's a judge, not Jesus.

Pyromaniac

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Pyromaniac

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Bounty Hunter

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Hey, I saw the copcam video! For the BAC, she was driving pretty well! I've seen worse from sober drivers.

Yeah, ol' Alice really got her, uh, finger stuck in the wringer this time. And when she stands up in court, she'll be treated like any other person. Right?

I'm going to wager that she loses some money is permitted to drive to/from work only for six months...if it's her first time. Takers?

Pyromaniac

Adjunct

that BAC is very high. There is no doubt though the judge will be given a suspension on the license and likely short probation.

I see no reason why the judge still cant serve.

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