This guy has 33 DUI's. How is this possible?

[Kclee]

I would think he would be behind bars for life after the first couple dozen.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20050210/ap_on_fe_st/mr__dwi

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Mr. DWI is in trouble again. Jerry R. Zeller, 64, who has been arrested multiple times for drunk driving, was arrested again on Tuesday. He's had so many arrests that law enforcement officials aren't sure of the total.



Ron Bedard, the police officer who arrested Zeller on Tuesday, said Zeller's criminal record "seems to indicate roughly 33 prior arrests for DUI."


"It's outrageous that Mr. Zeller is allowed to continue to flout the criminal justice system," Police Chief Craig Tieszen said.


"Right now it's an interesting news story, but we will all be outraged when he kills somebody on (DUI) number 35."


Some entries on Zeller's criminal record might be duplicates, said Kara Wood, deputy state's attorney in Pennington County. By Wood's count, Zeller has been arrested 16 times and convicted nine times since 1980.


But she added, "I just don't have an accurate number."


Zeller's latest arrest was his second in five months, she said.


A police report said a breath test on Zeller during Tuesday's arrest indicated a blood alcohol content of 0.286 percent. The South Dakota limit is 0.08 percent.


Even though he has a prior drunk driving charge pending and twice failed to show up for court on that charge, Zeller was released from the county jail on Wednesday after posting a $2,800 bond.


"I don't know what to say," said Lila Doud, president of the Pennington County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "We have just absolutely got to get him off the road so he doesn't kill someone, because we know it's going to happen, sooner or later."


Now, police want the state's attorney to charge Zeller's 84-year-old mother with allowing an unauthorized person to drive a vehicle registered in her name.


"I believe she's going to be charged with allowing an unauthorized driver to drive her vehicle," Wood said Thursday.


A notation in Zeller's file said his driver's license has been revoked for life.

[dirk digler]

No kidding I would like to be his lawyer.

[Bwana]

SD must have some loose DUI laws. In Montana, once you get your third, it's 10 years behind bars.

[dirk digler]

Mr Kotter is this you they are talking about?

[Eleazar]

Guy that I know has been arrested for DUI I think 5 times. He's never done any time though, because he comes up with money and lawyers his way out of it.

Starting to catch up with him now, he was compling an impressive list of warrants and such. I haven't talked to him since last summer though, don't know what he's doing now, may not be a free man anymore.

Just one of those people who doesn't care about anything.

[Kclee]

SD must have some loose DUI laws. In Montana, once you get your third, it's 10 years behind bars.

I just recently found out it was loose for TUI, but I guess DUI is too.



(typing under the influence)

[LTownChief]

Just one of those people who doesn't care about anything.


too many people like that in this world.

[LTownChief]

I think .08 is too low for the limit, because someone that drinks every night, like myself, that's still sober.

[Rain Man]

If he's been convicted nine times, that means he's most likely driven drunk somewhere between 4,000 and 9,000 times. (I vaguely recall reading somewhere that only 1 in every 500 or 1,000 drunk drivers actually gets caught on any given night.) It's just a matter of time before he hurts or kills an innocent person.

If I was the police chief, I'd station a police car outside his house every night for a month and give him about 30 more, because he's probably driving drunk pretty much every night. Give him another $60,000 in fines and you can cover the cost of the police officer and possibly get him off the road for good.

[Calcountry]

I would think he would be behind bars for life after the first couple dozen.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20050210/ap_on_fe_st/mr__dwi

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Mr. DWI is in trouble again. Jerry R. Zeller, 64, who has been arrested multiple times for drunk driving, was arrested again on Tuesday. He's had so many arrests that law enforcement officials aren't sure of the total.



Ron Bedard, the police officer who arrested Zeller on Tuesday, said Zeller's criminal record "seems to indicate roughly 33 prior arrests for DUI."


"It's outrageous that Mr. Zeller is allowed to continue to flout the criminal justice system," Police Chief Craig Tieszen said.


"Right now it's an interesting news story, but we will all be outraged when he kills somebody on (DUI) number 35."


Some entries on Zeller's criminal record might be duplicates, said Kara Wood, deputy state's attorney in Pennington County. By Wood's count, Zeller has been arrested 16 times and convicted nine times since 1980.


But she added, "I just don't have an accurate number."


Zeller's latest arrest was his second in five months, she said.


A police report said a breath test on Zeller during Tuesday's arrest indicated a blood alcohol content of 0.286 percent. The South Dakota limit is 0.08 percent.


Even though he has a prior drunk driving charge pending and twice failed to show up for court on that charge, Zeller was released from the county jail on Wednesday after posting a $2,800 bond.


"I don't know what to say," said Lila Doud, president of the Pennington County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "We have just absolutely got to get him off the road so he doesn't kill someone, because we know it's going to happen, sooner or later."


Now, police want the state's attorney to charge Zeller's 84-year-old mother with allowing an unauthorized person to drive a vehicle registered in her name.


"I believe she's going to be charged with allowing an unauthorized driver to drive her vehicle," Wood said Thursday.


A notation in Zeller's file said his driver's license has been revoked for life.You should have went through the article and inserted DELT wheverever Zellers name appeard.

;)

[KCWolfman]

Because a minute percentage in this nation are ever convicted of the crimes they are initially charged with - especially when it comes to driving.

[KCWolfman]

SD must have some loose DUI laws. In Montana, once you get your third, it's 10 years behind bars.
You have to be convicted, not charged.

[Skip Towne]

In Oklahoma they'd throw him under the jail.

[Eleazar]

If he's been convicted nine times, that means he's most likely driven drunk somewhere between 4,000 and 9,000 times. (I vaguely recall reading somewhere that only 1 in every 500 or 1,000 drunk drivers actually gets caught on any given night.) It's just a matter of time before he hurts or kills an innocent person.

If I was the police chief, I'd station a police car outside his house every night for a month and give him about 30 more, because he's probably driving drunk pretty much every night. Give him another $60,000 in fines and you can cover the cost of the police officer and possibly get him off the road for good.

I bet you could get community volunteers to station at the local watering holes and blow the whistle on the guy.

[Bwana]

You have to be convicted, not charged.

You are correct sir.

[KCWolfman]

You are correct sir.
Get a good lawyer and they will almost always drop charges.

See Robert Downey, Jr.

[ChiefsCountry]

I thought this was going to be a thread about Eric Warfield.

[Bwana]

I thought this was going to be a thread about Eric Warfield.

ROFL

[Braincase]

But can he play cornerback?

[CosmicPal]

Maybe, he's just crying out for help?