Friday, February 5, 2010

Cardinal David Freese DWI court appearance postponed

Maryland Heights, MO
A court appearance scheduled for Cardinals third baseman David Freese has been postponed. A self described "clean and sober" Freese was due in traffic court in Maryland Heights Thursday for his December drunk driving arrest. Freese is already on probation for a 2007 arrest in California. At last month's Cardinals Winter Warm-Up, the Lafayette High grad apologized and said he got sober thanks to baseball's employee assistance program.
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Monday, April 7, 2008

Scott Spiezio gets 3 years probation for DUI, hit-and-run


St. Louis, MO
Former Cardinal Scott Spiezio was sentenced in a California courtroom this morning to three years probation after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and hit-and-run, according to court records.

The charges stem from a car crash Dec. 30 that occurred about 200 yards from Spiezio's luxury high-rise condo in Irvine, Calif.

Spiezio must also pay $390 in fines, attend an alcohol program, go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, perform 80 hours of community service, and pay an undisclosed amount to a victim-witness emergency fund, according to records filed in Orange County Superior Court.

Charges of battery, assault, driving under the influence while blood is more than 0.08 percent alcohol and assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm were dismissed.

The Cardinals released Spiezio on Feb. 27 after he was charged in the case. The Cardinals have agreed to pay Spiezio's $2.4 million salary for this season plus a $100,000 buyout of next season's option. More >>
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Friday, December 7, 2007

LaRussa pleads guilty to DWI charge

November 29, 2007
The video window shows La Russa on the night that he was arrested. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa pleaded guilty for driving under the influence last March. Police found him asleep and smelling of alcohol in his running sport utility vehicle at a traffic signal.

As part of his plea agreement, La Russa will serve at least six months' probation, pay a $679 fine, complete DUI school and any recommended treatment and complete 50 hours of community service.

The Cardinals train and play spring training games in nearby Jupiter.
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Tony LaRussa DWI arrest: Field sobriety test video now is online

November 30 2007

Embarrassing. No doubt. But perhaps the worst part, the harshest penalty, in Cardinals skipper Tony La Russa's DUI plea deal this week was not the fine and loss of driving privileges, it was the release of the arrest video.

The video is a cringe-inducing montage of La Russa stumbling and bumbling during a roadside sobriety check in Jupiter, Fla., on March 22. The dashboard camera of a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy captured La Russa struggling to walk and failing to recite the alphabet: "... T, U, V, V, Z, T, U, V, X, Y, X, Z."

Authorities released the tape Wednehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifsday, the same day the intensely private La Russa pleaded guilty.

And from there, the video spread far and wide. It was played and replayed and, for good measure, played again on TV newscasts, ESPN Sports Center and across hundreds of websites, including YouTube, sports blog Deadspin.com and this newspaper's STLtoday.com.
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The video gave a second wind to an incident the Cardinals would prefer to see go away. And it graphically displayed the degree of La Russa's impairment, even though he registered a blood-alcohol level (.093) barely above the .08 legal limit.

"He looked completely sauced in the video," wrote one commentator on the official St. Louis Cardinals site. More >>

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