[Samseau]

(05-14-2014 01:53 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

I've been taking a break from the forum, but felt this warranted my (temporary) return. I live around this region and was once a local reporter. I did some digging into this woman's past and this is more serious and a bigger injustice than the articles about it are letting on.

This accident occurred on 9/11/2013 and she was charged with six offenses. But two years before, on 11/05/2011, Elizabeth Lena Meyers was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and also charged with nine other offenses. She was underage at the time. So, she was already a hazard on the road and this should have figured into her case. It apparently didn't.

It gets worse.

On 4/10/2014, Meyers received a citation for "EXCEEDING MAXIMUM SPEED: 85 MPH IN A POSTED 55 MPH ZONE." That's a direct quote. She chose to contest the ticket rather than pay it and is now awaiting trial. This shows serious chutzpah. Who would want to stand in front of a judge after all this? Someone who knows they'll beat the charge, that's who.

What bothers me is that no reporter bothered to dig up this information. It took me 30 seconds. Want to see it? Go to the Maryland Case Search Web site and type in her name. You can see everything she was charged with, plus her height, weight and address.

Looks like she (or her folks) got two separate attorneys from two law firms to represent her: Roberts & Woods of Riverdale, MD and Silverman Thompson Slutkin & White of Baltimore. I assume one firm handled some charges while the other firm took on the others.

According to the online records, it also looks like the motorcyclist's family lodged a civil suit against her in January which has yet to go to trial. In case any reporters are reading this, all of this information needs to figure into the articles if the forthcoming trial is covered in the media.

Holy Christ, blonde white girl privilege. She should have lost her license after the first offense.

This "no consequences for women" has really gone too far.