Posted on 11/24/2005 8:54:00 AM PST by ncountylee
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A judge put a Franklin County Jail inmate on probation for three years and fined her $500 for trying to escape by clinging to the underside of a bus.
Mari Ann Morrisey, 40, of Pickerington, admitted that on July 11 she slid under a bus that would have taken her and other inmates back to jail after a court appearance. She had appeared that day in Municipal Court on two misdemeanor traffic charges.
Morrisey hung onto the bus' undercarriage for about one block before dropping to the street. She was captured immediately by a man who saw her fall.
Defense attorney William Meeks told Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Sheeran on Wednesday that Morrisey acted impulsively, but Sheeran called the escape attempt "senseless."
Her traffic charges had been resolved, and she was only brought back to court to pay a fine before she would have been set free.
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It sounds like the drugs she got in prison were stronger than the street drugs she normally used.
Mr. Meeks is one of the more expensive attorneys in town.
The 40 year old Morrisey of lilly white Pickerington is probably not on drugs. She is most likely white, married with children and mildly affluent and very very stupid.
Can't get out of the way of stupid.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Exactly what is the point of probation here...do anything impulsive over the next three years and you're going to jail!?;)
She is DAMN lucky that she wasn't killed in this attempt to escape.
But if she had been killed, her family probably would have sued the local government for not taking appropriate measures to keep her in custody.
Is she blonde?
Being rich, 40 and white is relevant to why she got probation instead of jail, but has nothing to do as to whether or not she uses. The judge should have ordered a drug screen on her, or ordered her into a substance abuse program as a condition of probation.
When do folks get held at the jail for a traffic violation? Ususally if they are under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
(And after typing that, but before hitting post, I just google up another story - she was charged with being intoxicated, but it doesn't name her chemical of choice.) http://www.nbc4i.com/news/4708427/detail.html
So we know she abused chemicals, we just don't know what all she'll try.
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