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Duped by a Blonde Too Good to Be True, 'Dirty DUI' Victim Seeks Redemption (Divorce Tactic?)
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 07/31/2011 | Malaika Fraley

Posted on 08/01/2011 2:25:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

She was a striking blonde who spent a lot of time in Hawaii, just like he did. She was an avid Sharks fan, just like him. She said all the right things and made it clear that she wanted him.

"I haven't had sex in so long," she cooed on their first date.

Deep down, Dave Dutcher -- unassuming aeronautics engineer, father of three, recently split from his wife -- suspected that his Match.com sweetheart was too good to be true. And when a wildly flirtatious second date ended in a DUI, Dutcher wondered whether his ex-wife was somehow connected to the woman who had fed him shots and invited him hot-tubbing with an equally coquettish friend.

Then, two years later, a major police corruption scandal centered on a Concord private investigator exploded, and a prosecutor confirmed Dutcher's suspicions: He had been set up.

Now, on Monday, in a Contra Costa County courtroom, Dutcher will get his first chance at redemption: A judge will consider whether the stain from that night -- one of the five cases known as Contra Costa County's "dirty DUIs" -- unfairly tinged his divorce settlement. And prosecutors have also taken the extraordinary position that they will not stand in the way if Dutcher wants to withdraw his no contest plea -- two years later -- and ask a judge to wipe the crime from his record.

It's a stunning reversal of fortune for a 49-year-old man who, by his own admission, made a terrible decision to get behind the wheel that night in late 2008 after leaving the Old Spaghetti Factory in downtown Concord.

"I'm ashamed that I let my guard down," the Concord father said.

A kind of celebrity?

On that night, when his date and her friend flashed their breasts at Dutcher, he

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


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To: Responsibility2nd

What was the street address for this Home Depot?


21 posted on 08/01/2011 3:43:01 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: nickcarraway

Mr. Dutcher, a few words of advice:

1. You can’t cheat an honest man.
2. If it sounds too good to be true...there’s probably a good reason for that.


22 posted on 08/01/2011 3:53:58 PM PDT by RichInOC ("In retrospect, lighting the match was a mistake....")
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To: nickcarraway

Whe you bait a trap with a vagina to catch a recently divorced man , most men will get caught.

The wife of course knew all the details. She is lying.

I wouldn’t want my children raised by a woamn who would do a thing like this. The man says his children have been turned against him and I am also sure she did that.

What we have here is a dumb husband and a crooked conniving low life wife.

The kids would be better off with the dumb dad.


23 posted on 08/01/2011 4:38:04 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Responsibility2nd

I only wished I had read your post before I was caught up in this same scam. And for some unknown reason, when it’s all over, I say “I’ll see you next Wednesday”. I feel cornfused.


24 posted on 08/01/2011 4:51:18 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire but I swear I didn't see him in the rearview mirror.)
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To: nickcarraway
On that night, when his date and her friend flashed their breasts at Dutcher, he

Whoa!

25 posted on 08/01/2011 5:13:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (You can't forfeit the game Chuck! If you go home you forfeit!)
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To: no gnu taxes
One doesn't go to jail for a 1st offense DUI with a BAC of 0.12.

I think they do in my state.
26 posted on 08/01/2011 7:21:52 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Misplaced Texan
He wasn't stopped for driving drunk. He was set up and found to have an alcohol blood limit over 0.08. The fact that they are willing to let him walk on the DUI means that his driving was not putting anyone in danger.

Remember that DUI doesn't account for how you drive, but on how much alcohol is in your system. The same type law that we will have for obesity here shortly.


How does any of this change anything I said?

He was still legally intoxicated.
He was still being careless and irresponsible.
He still committed a crime for idiot reasons.
Someone still could have gotten hurt.
27 posted on 08/01/2011 7:25:41 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Honey Trap Ping!


28 posted on 08/01/2011 7:26:50 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Honey Trap Ping!



29 posted on 08/01/2011 8:51:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

As Elwood sang, it’s cheaper to keep her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlczDy4f6A&feature=related


30 posted on 08/02/2011 4:05:53 AM PDT by fredhead (I'm not sleeping, I'm checking my eyelids for cracks.)
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To: 2Fro; all_mighty_dollar; Arkat Kingtroll; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Betis70; billycat95130; ...

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31 posted on 08/02/2011 8:25:38 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Tzimisce
You were driving drunk.

He was arrested by the PI's accomplices on the police force as part of an entrapment scheme. The PI was being paid $thousands to get the guy set up on a charge of drunken driving. How do we know for sure whether the charged blood alcohol level was real or fabricated?

32 posted on 08/02/2011 8:38:57 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: Tzimisce
From the article:
But, according to court records, the officer who arrested Dutcher had been tipped off by his acquaintance Christopher Butler, the one-time Antioch police officer and private investigator now at the center of a federal grand jury investigation that is also probing the former Central Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Team commander Norman Wielsch and three recently resigned cops from Danville, San Ramon and the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.

The group is already charged by the state for a series of alleged crimes, including selling stolen drug evidence, harboring illegal weapons and threatening witnesses. Butler and former Danville Officer Stephen Tanabe are each charged in connection with the setup DUIs. Dutcher is among the witnesses who have been subpoenaed by the U.S. attorney's office to testify.

The PI and his cop friends are dirty. That taints any evidence they may have presented.
33 posted on 08/02/2011 9:05:01 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: martin_fierro

Booze & Breasts gone wrong bump


34 posted on 08/02/2011 9:29:07 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao << >> with a floating, shifting, ever changing)
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To: Slings and Arrows

See how much trouble someone can get into because of [a subject related to the other thread], and your car?

;-p


35 posted on 08/02/2011 9:39:07 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: nickcarraway

Recently split from his wife (not divorced) and already on Match.com, good thing she got rid of the jerk. And I’m a man not a woman for the record.


36 posted on 08/02/2011 9:43:33 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL, good one ...


37 posted on 08/02/2011 9:44:49 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: fredhead

I like the way Peggy and Toots said it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Ypdsam6wE


38 posted on 08/02/2011 10:51:53 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TheOldLady

I like my car.


39 posted on 08/02/2011 10:54:40 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Of course you do.


40 posted on 08/02/2011 11:29:24 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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