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Thursday, July 11, 2019
'F*** YOU, I'M A LAWYER': FLORIDA ATTORNEY ARRESTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING FOUND WITH OPEN BOTTLE OF RUM IN HIS LAP. (Newsweek)
Do some louche local lawyers and elected officials need to re-read Emily Post on Ettiquette, or "How to Win Friends and Influence People?"
Remember the time that energumen ERROL DONLEVY JONES, St. Augustine Vice Mayor, former St. Augustine High School Dean, allegedly said to SAPD officers who were arresting him for obstructing them, "Do you know who I am?"
(This later led Commissioner LEANNA SOPHIA AMARU FREEMAN to joke that she was going to have "Do you know who I am?" added to her city badge of office.). ERROL JONES has since been arrested/incarcerated some twelve times. JONES often interrupted while speaking about abuses of power, objecting to my giving this then newly-established blog address during public comment, saying I was somehow forbidden to state the address to advertise it. (I do it all the time now).
Pray for him.
Another case in point: this maniacal jerk, JAMES ALFRED STANLEY, JR., whose mean manner of allegedly cursing and identifying oneself to a police officer as a lawyer did not work. From conversations with police officers, it probably never works in America. But in the former Soviet Union, lawyers could hail a police car as if haling a cab here in America, since lawyers were. considered an integral part of their Soviet maladministration.
Time for JAMES ALFRED STANLEY, JR., to go back to law school for retreading? Or to "charm school," the informal name once given to Martin Marietta/Lockheed Martin training for managers?
Pray for him. He told the arresting officer that he was going through a divorce and had been drinking alcohol since morning, to help him with his pain.
What do you reckon?
An initial hearing is set before County Court Judge Charles J. Tinlin at 1:30 pm on August 7, 2019.
From Newsweek:
F*** YOU, I'M A LAWYER': FLORIDA ATTORNEY ARRESTED FOR DRINK DRIVING FOUND WITH OPEN BOTTLE OF RUM IN HIS LAP
A Florida attorney who was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly driving under the influence fumed "f*** you, I'm a lawyer" at a deputy while being detained, police say.
James Stanley, 61, had an open bottle of rum on his lap when stopped by deputies from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville, according to an arrest report obtained by WJXT. It said he smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech.
Stanley, who was booked for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs at roughly 3:10 p.m., was first reported by a member of the public who spotted a black Mercedes swerving while driving on the road. The suspect told the St. Johns deputy he had been drinking since 9 a.m.
"I'm [expletive] up," he said, blaming the alcohol consumption on an ongoing divorce. The situation escalated after Stanley was unable to walk properly and refused to comply with police sobriety tests, WJXT reported. "F*** you, I'm a lawyer, you dumb [expletive]. I am not doing the exercises, [expletive] arrest me," he responded, according to the police report.
The attorney—of the Jacksonville-based law firm Meyers & Stanley—allegedly lashed out after the officer suggested that failing to comply with the tests would not help his own legal case. At one point Stanley gave up on the procedure, saying: "No, just take me to jail."
Protests continued after the 61-year-old arrived at the county jail, WJXT reported. "You're one stupid [expletive] if you think I'm not entitled to a lawyer," Stanley allegedly told an officer.
The suspect was held on $1,000 bond and was released at approximately 1:10 p.m. yesterday, according to inmate records posted online by the sheriff's office.
Court filings confirmed his case was assigned to Judge Alexander Christine, Jr. The suspect was cited for possession of an open container in a motor vehicle. A fine was listed as $166.00.
The full arrest report was not yet available via the county clerk's website. Stanley did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to an email account listed online.
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This man is a bigger crook than anyone could have imagined. Now he has stolen all Clients monies and settlements and is still the entitled jerk he was when he was caught drunk driving!
1 comment:
This man is a bigger crook than anyone could have imagined. Now he has stolen all Clients monies and settlements and is still the entitled jerk he was when he was caught drunk driving!
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