"Paralyzed" woman gets up, runs from police

Reuters ^ | 5/11/06 | Reuters staff

[FormerACLUmember]

A wheelchair-bound Los Angeles woman, who has repeatedly filed lawsuits over access for the disabled, got up and ran after police arrested her for fraud, authorities said on Thursday.

Laura Lee Medley, 35, had sued in at least four California cities over injuries she claimed she sustained while trying to navigate her wheelchair before she was suspected of fraud.

Medley, who claimed to be paralyzed from a drunk driving accident, was tracked to Las Vegas where police there took her into custody and then, when she complained of medical issues, to a local hospital, Long Beach prosecutor Belinda Mayes said.

"She gets to the hospital and while she's waiting for an examination, she gets up from the chair and runs," Mayes said. "Somebody remarked, 'That's where the great miracle occurred."'

Medley sprinted through the hospital corridors but was quickly apprehended by police and booked pending extradition to San Bernardino, southern California, where she is facing charges of filing false documents, attempted grand theft and insurance fraud.

Medley has sued the cities of Long Beach and South Pasadena and counties of San Bernardino and Riverside over various injuries she claimed she sustained in her wheelchair. She was also being sought on arrest warrants by the states of Oregon and Washington, Mayes said.

[FormerACLUmember]

US courts are absolutely filled with this type of litigants, coached by armies of trial lawyers. 40% of medical malpractice cases are exactly like this.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Sign up this bitch trash for the China olympics and leave her over there!!

[edpc]

[the invisib1e hand]

picture?

[SSR1]

Reminds me of when all that "Laundered NAZI money" finally caught up with
Guy Caballero on Second City TV! LOL
I would have paid to see the looks on the cops faces as this chick SPRINTS down the hall!!! Hahahahaha

[JennysCool]

Guy Caballero on Second City TV!

I crack up just thinking about that guy.

[jigsaw]

ROTLMAO!   A most excellent connection!

[FormerACLUmember]

picture?

No picture of the Olympic windsprinter Ms.Laura Lee Medley, but I do have a picture of her lawyers (note the name of the firm):

[SpaceBar]

She deserves nothing less than growing old in a maximum security women's correctional facility, and be forced to liquidate her assets to pay fines and restitution. All successful legal decisions based on her testimony or derived from those decisions should be overturned and her attorney's license to practice law should also be revoked. Anything less is unacceptable.

[Thunder90]

[martin_fierro]

A wheelchair-bound Los Angeles woman, who has repeatedly filed lawsuits over access for the disabled, got up and ran after police arrested her for fraud

Her case now doesn't have a leg to stand on.

[martin_fierro]

her attorney's license to practice law should also be revoked.

Did I miss the part about her being an attorney?

[FormerACLUmember]

Lots of the disabled rights Litigation Industry is complete fraud.

[andy58-in-nh]

"Hey, baby, once you been with a man with no legs, you never go back."

[Alia]

What? No "PRAISE GOD, I'M HEALED!" as she ran?

[FormerACLUmember]

lol

[Ditto]

Here's what I would do --- write her up on enough charges to spend the rest of her life in prison, and then offer her a deal to turn on her lawyers and doctors who most probably took most of the settlements.

The low life who play these scams are bad, but it's the "professionals" in law and medicine that enable and profit from those scams who need to be hung!

[FormerACLUmember]

"Here's what I would do --- write her up on enough charges to spend the rest of her life in prison, and then offer her a deal to turn on her lawyers and doctors who most probably took most of the settlements. The low life who play these scams are bad, but it's the "professionals" in law and medicine that enable and profit from those scams who need to be hung!"

Lawyers in these endless fraud cases get 30% to 40% of her cash settlements, plus expenses (depending on the juristiction). The D.A.s NEVER investigate further as you (correctly) suggest should be done.

Why? Because D.A.s are also good old boy lawyers themselves, part of the club, many of them as corrupt as the plaintiff bar (Think of the Duke "rape" case).

Some dopey doctors are probably involved, but these are small, tiny fish in the cash flow.

[Ditto]

I understand. It's just my dream -- like "If I were King".

But someone really does need to nail these guys to the wall.

How about the media? < / sarcasm > ;~))