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Edwards' Brother Pleads Innocent to DUI
Yahoo ^ | 7/19/04 | Robert Weller - AP

Posted on 07/19/2004 11:13:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

DENVER - The brother of Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) pleaded innocent Monday to a 10-year-old charge of driving under the influence and was released on $5,000 bail pending trial.

Wesley Blake Edwards was allowed to return to his home in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., said Mike Knight, spokesman for the Arapahoe County district attorney's office.

A motions hearing was scheduled for Nov. 4 and a trial for Nov. 29. As a condition of his release, Edwards was ordered not to drink alcohol or drive without a license .

Edwards, 39, an electrician, was arrested in suburban Arapahoe County on Nov. 4, 1993, on suspicion of driving under the influence, careless driving and driving without insurance. A warrant was issued Jan. 6, 1994, after he failed to appear in court.

Harvey Steinberg, a lawyer who represents Edwards, contacted the district attorney's office after North Carolina newspapers reported details of the warrant. Arrangements had been made for Blake Edwards to turn himself in.

Edwards had three misdemeanor drunken-driving convictions in 1985, 1987 and 1990 in North Carolina, and his license was permanently revoked in 1990. He spent a week in jail on one of the convictions, records show.

Edwards has been charged twice with driving without a license, most recently in August. He pleaded guilty and paid a $100 fine.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: alcohol; blakeedwards; dui; edwards
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To: NormsRevenge

This just gets better...


41 posted on 07/19/2004 12:16:37 PM PDT by Jaded (Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain)
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To: NormsRevenge

It's NORM .. *L*

Sooo where is his buddy Cliff?


42 posted on 07/19/2004 12:19:29 PM PDT by Mo1 (50 States .... I want all 50 States come November!)
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To: Graybeard58

Yes, BUT - he paid the ultimate price... It cost him his chance to advance to the office of POTUS, a position that the Kennedy's view as a birthright...


43 posted on 07/19/2004 1:23:19 PM PDT by vrwinger (Tagline? I don't need no stinkin' TAGLINE!)
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To: Mo1
Funny thing... this warrant was outstanding for 10 years.

Funny thing...it was the New York Daily News (as far as I can tell), who broke the story on Edwards' brother having a drinking/driving problem. (Who even knew he had a brother before this?)

And how ha ha funny, that only now is this being "fixed", and one has to assume John Edwards is footing the bill.

Brothers shouldn't be held responsible for brothers, but really folks, how did this story stay hidden for so long? North Carolina newspapers have been writting long, detailed bio articles on Edwards for years, this should have been old, old news. As should the fact that Edwards bought his brother a $100,000.00 house.

The real story here is that the media kept Edwards' secret, and then accepted his lame explanation, that he didn't know the extent of his brother's problem.

45 posted on 07/19/2004 2:16:01 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@Kerry = He's Just A Gigolo.com)
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To: YaYa123
The real story here is that the media kept Edwards' secret, and then accepted his lame explanation, that he didn't know the extent of his brother's problem.

The papers have often said he is another Clinton

46 posted on 07/19/2004 2:48:35 PM PDT by Mo1 (50 States .... I want all 50 States come November!)
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To: evets

You are KIDDING!! That is The Breck Girl's brother??? You can't be serious!


47 posted on 07/19/2004 2:53:38 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NormsRevenge

LOL!!!


48 posted on 07/19/2004 2:54:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NormsRevenge


49 posted on 07/19/2004 3:02:08 PM PDT by montag813 ("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: NormsRevenge

Vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites), right, talks to a private group of invited guests outside the home of Durham Mayor Bill Bell, seated next to Edwards, during a 'Front Porch Visit' where the private group could ask questions in Durham, N.C., Monday, July 19, 2004. Bell's daughters Kristen and Anjanee and wife Judith, from left, listen. (AP Photo/Jon Gardiner)


50 posted on 07/19/2004 4:01:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ... Godspeed x40 ... Support Our Troops!!! ......Become a FR Monthly Donor ...)
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