Not A Lawyer

A mom who has a habit of driving drunk was reported for drunk driving by her 8 year old son.

The woman, was allegedly driving drunk while her son was in the car. The smart little boy decided to use a cellphone to dial 911.

Paulette Lynn Spears, 33, was arrested Saturday night after she drove to a fire station and told people there that she had a medical problem. It turns out, the problem was that she was drunk.

Her son, riding in the car with her, had been repeatedly calling 911 and trying to describe landmarks as they passed them. Using global positioning technology and the little boy’s descriptions, the police located the car at the fire station less than a minute after the woman and her son arrived.

Before the little boy had called police, they had received another call about the vehicle driving erratically. When the little guy got in touch with police he told them that his mom wasn’t acting normal and that he didn’t know exactly where they were.

At least twice when the boy was trying to get police help, his mother interrupted the calls. At one point she reportedly bit her child on the hand to try to get the phone away from him.

A five year old child was also in the car with Spears. Both children were placed in the care of a relative and Spears was arrested for suspicion of DUI, reckless endangerment and assault of a child. She has at least one previous conviction for drunk driving.

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Jessica Hodges thought she was in labor, so she set off to the hospital in her car to try to get there in time. She was pulled over by police for going 57mph in a 35mph zone and charged with reckless driving.

Could the cop not see tell she was in labor? Maybe he didn’t believe her. Still she was detained long enough for the reckless driving ticket to be issued before she was able to make it to the hospital. Luckily, it was a false alarm.

She was found guilty of the charge of reckless driving. She was one of the first people in Virginia to be hit with an “abusive driver fee” of $1050 on top of the $100 fine for the ticket and the court costs.

The “abusive driver fees” range from $700 to $3000 and were designed to pay for Virginia’s transportation projects. And who better to pay for transportation projects than pregnant women on the way to the hospital?

I’m not the only one who thinks the fees are ridiculous. There have been 170,000 signatures to an online petition to repeal the fees. Even two Virginia judges have found them to be unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. If you don’t live in Virginia, they can not collect the outrageous fees from you, so they are only raping their own with these fees.

Hodges plans to appeal her conviction. She says she was rushed in court and did not get a chance to explain to the judge the circumstances of why she was speeding. She hopes to have the opportunity to explain to a new judge, who she also hopes will dismiss the case.

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A convicted sex offender in Georgia who has twice failed to register with the state sex offender registry is now facing life in prison.  The man is homeless and has no address, but that is no excuse under the state law.

Larry W Moore, Jr. took indecent liberties with a child in North Carolina and was convicted in 1994.  Georgia’s strict sex offender registration law requires convicted sex offenders to register an address that is not closer than 1,000 feet from schools, day care facilities, school bus stops, public swimming pools and churches.  The offenders also have the 1,000 feet restriction for work addresses.

Since this is Moore’s second conviction for not registering as a sex offender, Georgia law mandates an automatic life sentence.

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