Sometimes it’s good to be the king…or at least one of the King’s men.
Texas has some of the toughest DUI laws in the country. But if you want to avoid the stiffest penalties, all you have to do is carry a badge.
Robstown P.D. officer Michael Morin was arrest on November 6th after he was found slumped over his steering wheel on the road near the Staples and Everhart intersection. On Wednesday, we learned Morin has worked out a deal with the prosecutor’s office and he is taking part in a pre-trial diversion program. If he complies with that program, Morin will have the charge removed from his record.
And he’s back on the job…busting people for DUI.
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44 responses to “Professional Courtesy”
“on November 6th after he was found slumped over his steering wheel on the road”
Well, at least he wasn’t driving, amirite? But yeah, King’s men, it’s good to be. If he was a Senator, he could have driven down Pennsylvania Ave at .40 BAC and ran down 10 grandmas and 5 nuns holding babies and then Congress would make some grumblings about discipline and nothing.else.happened.
In all honesty, if he was on his way to vote they’d be breaking the law if they stopped him.
Even if his last name wasn’t Kennedy.
Oh yeah, that guy. The car was towing the senate lion and then it ran off the cliff… I mean the bridge.
Are we talking about Teddy or his son?
‘towing the senate lion’ I thought that would give it away.
Sure, but driving inebriated down Pennsylvania Ave on his way to a vote (or what he said he thought was a vote) is Patrick.
The thing about Pennsylvania Ave was just a hypothetical analogy about how laws are only for peasants. So the two posts weren’t really related at all. The 2nd was just an off the cuff response to sloop.
But yeah, I see, ‘oh yeah, that guy’ is what maybe confused the whole thing.
“The Senators and Representatives…shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses and in going to and returning from the same” – U.S. Constitution, Art. I(6)
So if drunk driving rises to the level of a felony or a breach of the peace then the cops can stop Senator Dipso. If it’s a misdemeanor not involving a breach of the peace they have to wait until he goes and votes and then returns home again before they arrest him.
Wilbur Mills did okay when he went into the Tidal Pool.
I love Texas, but this is just stupid. My cousin is a cop in Gregg County and I think (hope) he’s one of the good ones, but dang, stories like this make me furious. Come on, Texas, you’re better than this.
You know, if lawmakers and their minions had to live by the laws they pass, not many laws would be passed. One day someone should write a constitution or something and make everyone equal under the law. Just a thought.
Equal Protection is a myth.
Besides, these people put their life on the line every time they leave the house. So they deserve to be gods among men, right?
Even if they’re so trashed they fall asleep at a traffic light while off duty.
Besides, these people put their life on the line every time they
leave the housefall asleep at a traffic light while off duty. So they deserve to be gods among men, right?If in a society, you have some good people who put principles over principals and they speak out, they are mocked and called extremists by useful idiots who still believe that communism would have worked if only all of the kulaks and wreckers were killed. I didn’t even have to make that up.
A little person would have gotten “extreme DUI” and been in the clink for 10 days.
This is on the judge, not another cop. But it’s still bullshit.
True, it’s not just the cop in this case. It’s disgusting all the way down, though.
Is this on a judge? Without RTFA, your excerpt reads like it’s the prosecutor that’s corrupt. Or did the deal require judicial approval? Not that it matters, the larger point of unequal justice still stands.
god dammit.
Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Filipiak got busted in Michigan driving with 0.28 & 0.27 BAC, which is “super drunk” driving according to Michigan law, being over 0.17. He managed to plead it down to “regular” DWI. No word on sentencing yet, but the “super drunk” conviction very likely would have cost him his job, as such a conviction mandates the use of an interlock device on any vehicle he would have driven for a year.
Ok. If he weighs 200 lbs, .28 would, I think this is close anyway, probably be the equiv of drinking 15 beers in an hour. So yeah, that’s pretty drunk.
Pshaw. Sounds like a cheap date to me.
Case Race team draft prediction: 2nd.
Baw, a Lightweight.
The picture broke.
Don’t know why. I is not two computer smarts.
oh, who knows. there are plenty
Like sloop initially posted, when you’re the kings men. Why wouldn’t you try that? You can get away with shooting dogs and people. What’s a little joy ridin? Good shoot, good ride.
blowing red lights around grandmas is part of them risking their lives for you, Hyp.
You mean the image of officer blockhead? With some green paint he’d pass for Herman Munster.
nice.
Sometimes, Dead is better.
BTW, my cat just died, does anybody have any suggestions on what to do with a dead pet?
If it meant a lot to you, bury it. If not dump it in the trash. If you have the freedom to burn on your property, you could go the funeral pyre route.
Then there’s always the kitchen. ..
The freezer. Procrastination is better than dropping a couple hundred on cremation. Bonus: you can prolong saying goodbye for perpetuity.
Now with jerkmode out of the way, my only experience with this is burial in a hole, and covering the cost of a cremation for a family member, which cost $1-200.
I bury mine.
I have a little pet cemetery on the back of my property. It is on a hillside overlooking the bayou. My wife is quite sentimental. We are big pet people. The inhabitants of that cemetery are critters that were practically family members for decades. Yep, little headstones and everything.
Sadly I am soon going to have to add another to it. Our 20 y/o lab Gladys (actually spelled Glad-ass for the way she used to wag her tail) can barely get around anymore. For ten years she was a rocket, the best frisbee dog ever.
20 is an amazing age for a lab. You’re lucky guy to have had her for so long.
Throw a frisbee at our dog and she’ll watch it fly by, then stare at you and wag her tail.
It’s beautiful how much we love them and how they become family members.
I’ve always viewed their passing as an opportunity to give another who needs it a forever home.
We always cremate ours, they come back in a nice box with a plaque, but that’s because we live in a Brooklyn apartment.
If I had property i would do the graveyard memorial thing.
@thrakkorzog
Hey man, I’m sorry to hear that, that sucks. I always give mine a nice burial in the back yard.
It’s back now!
oh god, make him go away!
I wonder if these diversion programs really are rationed out to the general public, or if lawyers just don’t ask for them. The people I know who have gotten arrested for DUI give their lawyers fairly basic instructions: keep me out of jail and help me keep my license.
Slightly related: an SRO in my district just got arrested for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a student. They’re hammering his ass to the wall, but I’m a bit confused. The local paper described one of the charges as “Crimes against nature.” I get that laws are hard to repeal and there are tons of old regulations that stay on the books, but I feel like that’s vague enough that a prosecutor could squint at it and make it apply in a lot more places than might have been originally intended. Assuming the original intent was to include more deviant sex acts like anal or dancing to rock and roll music.
I got pulled over a few weeks ago, for the first time in about 25 years. He nailed me doing 74 in a 50. I thought my goose was proverbially cooked.
Cop: Good evening sir. You were going 74 in a 50 MPH zone.
Me: Yeah….
Cop: Any reason for you to be going that speed? Do you have an emergency?
Me: Oh…I wish…
[Still rummaging for my registration, which I never found]
Cop: [Looking at license] Do you still live at this address?
Me: Sort of… [I moved out a year before]
Cop: Any points on your license?
Me: None, sir.
That was almost verbatim of the conversation. Goes back to the car, comes back after about 3 minutes, hands me a warning and tells to slow down and have a nice night. And get a copy of my registration. No idea why he did that. He had me dead to rights.
The weirdest part in all of this, was that I was talking to someone *that very morning* about how I hadn’t been pulled over in so long, even though I drive 20K a year and all of that way over the speed limit. I shit you not.
If you were wearing your greasepaint in the foto, then it’s because of Mime Privilege. Figured since you broke silence, he already humiliated you for your weakness to keep character.
I’m certainly disgusted at your lack of moxie; you should have mimed everything. I’m sure he would have been amused.-)
OT: I was reading a little at TSTSNBN this morning, and thinking about all of the handle-jacking and subsequent banning and comment wiping. It seems to me like and effective method of deterring trolls would be to let them post, but have the system only make their posts visible to themselves. It would be a little tedious and fustrating for them to figure out whether they’re being “blocked”. I don’t know if that’s easily implementable in WordPress. Just a thought.