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guy gets in 2 accidents (suspected dui's) and dropped. 3rd one he kills someone.

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Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said Monday he didn't believe a detective charged with reckless homicide and DUI in a fatal crash last week received any "professional courtesies" from authorities in two earlier traffic incidents.

Joseph Frugoli, 41, had not been administered field sobriety tests in a January 2005 crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 31st Street in which he rear-ended another vehicle or a January 2008 incident in which he struck a police vehicle near Pershing Road and Iron Street while off duty. Tickets were dropped in both cases.

Frugoli, who appeared in court Monday for a brief hearing, has been charged with two counts each of reckless homicide and aggravated DUI, plus one count of leaving the scene of a fatal crash. He left the hearing without comment and is expected in court again May 1

In 2005, Frugoli slammed into a vehicle on the expressway and was ticketed for failure to reduce speed. The ticket was dropped when the other driver did not show up in court, according to the driver's lawyer.

In January 2008, Frugoli was ticketed for ignoring a stop sign when he crashed into a police vehicle, injuring two officers. That ticket was also dismissed.





Maybe if the tickets weren't droped (they wouldnt for a civilian) then maybe a few people would still be alive. 1 dui dropped and another suspected dui dropped. if they were not the guy wouldnt have his licesne and most likely (maybe not) wouldnt have drove.

hopefully this guy goes away for a long time. though i doubt he gets 10 years (not because he is a police officer. they just don't punish dui deaths harsh enough) and NEVER gets to drive again.

 
He was not given any FST's in the 2 previous incidents so where did the DUI wording come in regarding those?

 
This guy got a few chances as well.


ONLY ON FOX19: Guilty plea in deadly car crash

By Corey McConnell - bio | email

WARSAW, KY (FOX19) - The son of a local elected officials has pled guilty to causing the death of a Gallatin County High School valedictorian.

Samantha Spade was a nursing student at Northern Kentucky University when her life was cut short. She was driving on U.S. 127 in Gallatin County when a drunk driver hit and killed her.

On Monday, Matthew Miles, the son of the Gallatin County clerk, admitted his guilt. He had a blood alcohol content of 0.23 two hours after the deadly accident.

Spade was president of Gallatin County High School's chapter of Students Against Drunk Driving.

"She was just starting her life and in an instant she was gone," said her mother Debbie Powers.

Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders was appointed special prosecutor on the case because of conflicts of interest with the local prosecutor.

"No plea deal, no sentence that he'll serve will ever bring Samantha Spade back cause God doesn't make people better than Samantha Spade," said Sanders.

In a packed courtroom, Miles shook and cried while he admitted guilt to manslaughter.

Miles had several DUI arrests on his record, all knocked down to lesser charges.

"He had his chances, unfortunately it came to a young lady losing her life before he learned his lesson," said Sanders.

For Samantha's family, no sentence will ever be enough.

"The charges will never be enough to bring back Samantha. She was the best little thing there was," said her grandmother, Nancy Caudill.

Miles will be sentenced on May 7, but the sentence is mandated as part of the plea deal. He'll be sentenced to 20 years and will be eligible for parole after four years.
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
no proof he was DUI previously....FST's do not prove drunkeness.
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No but based on how you perform in them they do provide probable cause to investigate further. Do you really think the FSTs would have been skipped if the individual was not a detective?
 
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: alkemyst
no proof he was DUI previously....FST's do not prove drunkeness.
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No but based on how you perform in them they do provide probable cause to investigate further. Do you really think the FSTs would have been skipped if the individual was not a detective?
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yes FST's are skipped everyday and people sent on their way. In reality between about 10pm and 4am on a Friday-Sunday many people would fail a breath test on the road. These people aren't killing people nor causing accidents though.

Actually the way field side testing is administered in real-life is usually the officer knows you are going to be arrested or not. The FST's are taped to back that arrest up.

If you were shown sober and drunks both doing FST's it'd be hard to determine who is who.

It's easy mid day in and office to demonstate....but try doing it late night, when tired, on uneven pavement, facing possible false accusation, while others are leering at you and bright lights are shining in your face.

I was shown a tape one time (I wish it was on youtube) of a demonstration of this concept. The average was about 50% on picking the right people out of the group. Many actually picked more sober people than drunks as being intoxicated.

It ran through the tests then at the end after you picked it gave the BAL's.
 
He essentially had one ticket dropped. The first one sounds valid - other driver didn't show up. Things get dropped afaik when the person who the ticket is in favor for doesn't show up to court.
The second ticket - well... hard to deny anything about that one.

But if either were during the day, and no obvious signs of drunkenness are show anyhow, absolutely no reason to administer the FST. It's not something that gets pushed by the officer making the stop every single time he pulls someone over for an accident, as a lot of accidents, you know... are also caused simply by negligent driving.

Just because he got a DUI for his most recent accident, the newspaper seems to want to spin the article to appear as if it were obvious he was drunk on the scene of the other accidents and simply got a slap on the wrist for them.

He cooperated with both tickets, and this time, with a definitive DUI, he fled the scene.
 
My buddy works in an E.R. and he told me that one time when he was working the cops brought in a drunk driver. They had to bring him to the hospital before booking because he was too drunk and unable to be put in jail until a doctor had checked him out. He'd been in a crash and they also had to make sure he didn't have any serious injuries. It took the doctor over an hour to get to the patient and the cops didn't want to work later because their shift was up so they just left him there and he was never arrested.

Next time it may not have been a tree he hit. My buddy was pissed at the cops. Says stuff like that happens a lot more than he ever imagined.
 
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