{"id":172321268,"date":"2010-06-18T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172321268"},"modified":"2010-06-18T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:01:08","slug":"the-moral-of-the-story-if-you-repeatably-drink-and-drive-dont-hit-the-judge-that-let-you-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172321268","title":{"rendered":"The moral of the story: if you repeatably drink and drive don&#8217;t hit the judge that let you off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Nathan Carrick &#8211; Gazette<br \/>\nA Gaithersburg man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a drunken-driving crash that injured a former judge, who had spared him jail time years before.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMothers Against Drunk Driving Vice President for Public Policy J.T. Griffin said crashes such as Fernandez&#8217;s are a tragedy in several ways.<br \/>\n&quot;First, any time a drunk driver crashes it&#8217;s a tragedy because it could have been prevented,&quot; he said. &quot;Sadly there&#8217;s a pattern in what we&#8217;re seeing not just in Maryland but across the country.&quot;<br \/>\nExperienced defense attorneys often are paired against inexperienced prosecutors, who are outmatched, he said.<br \/>\nKudel&#8217;s website touts him as the &quot;best DWI lawyer in the Washington metropolitan area.&quot;<br \/>\nAccording to Montgomery County Police, about 3,600 arrests for driving under the influence and driving while intoxicated were made each year between 2005 and 2009.<br \/>\nThe number of convictions from these arrests was not available by Tuesday afternoon.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/06162010\/gaitnew194857_32548.php\">https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/06162010\/gaitnew194857_32548.php<\/a>oldId.20100618110108508<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nathan Carrick &#8211; Gazette A Gaithersburg man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a drunken-driving crash that injured a former judge, who had spared him jail time years before. &#8230; Mothers Against Drunk Driving Vice President for Public Policy J.T. Griffin said crashes such as Fernandez&#8217;s are a tragedy in several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172321268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The moral of the story: if you repeatably drink and drive don&#8217;t hit the judge that let you off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172321268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172321268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172321268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172321268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172321268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172321268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172321268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}