Video of wreckage here
Posted on 01/21/2009 8:45:04 PM PST by Feline_AIDS
Elizabeth Shelton, 21, filed a lawsuit in Houston in December against the truck driver that she accidentally rear-ended in a 2007 crash, while she was intoxicated, and in which her boyfriend was killed. Though she was convicted of manslaughter, she is now suing for $20,000 damage to her Lexus SUV and for "pain and suffering," basing her claim on the fact that the blameless driver she hit was uninsured. In all, her lawsuit names 16 defendants, including insurance companies and banks. Shelton is the daughter of a state court judge. [Houston Chronicle, 12-18-08]
If we all had fathers that were state court judges....
Surely Texas has some state equivalent of Section 11 sanctions that can be imposed in cases like this?
And there it is. I'm surprised she was even convicted of manslaughter.
Ok I say it........Who’s her daddy ?
Video of wreckage here
The Lawyer should go to prison
Is this what they mean by chutzba?
What a retard. Surely the court system has some way of not allowing idiots like this to waste the court and taxpayers time and money.
No kidding. "You can fight it, honey. Really! Here's how..."
The drunk slut had a BAC of THREE TIMES
the legal limit when arrested, spent 120 days in the can and paid a fine of $10, 000. Now I suppose she wants the money back. The boyfriend was partially decapitated, who in their right mind would repair that SUV? I saw a photo of the car, it looks like the Jayne Mansfield deathmobile. Gross!
What a wonderful young lady. I'm sure Judge Pat is proud. /s
Wow,looking at that vehicle she should be on her knees daily thanking the Lord she is not presently worm food.
The truck had no insurance, thus by state law should not have been occupying that particular set of space-time coordinates when she rear-ended it. Had the truck driver been obeying the law, then this particular accident would have never happened. That’s not to say that she might not have gotten into a different accident, just not this one.
Second to that is these idiots being allowed to file these frivolous lawsuits against peoples/companies that have nothing directly related to the incident and ignoring the fact that she was the guilty party for all of it.
It kinda like blame the tobacco companies for giving you lung cancer, suing Mc Donalds for getting scalded for mishandling a HOT CUP of COFFEE, blaming the gun mfgrs for making guns that killed people in it 'proper use'.
My wife AND my best friend were still in intensive care.
This dirtball told me he would 'settle' right there if I'd drop the traffic offenses.
I asked him to step outside the Courtroom for a moment so we could have some privacy.
I returned to the Courtroom a few minutes later alone.
Mr. Lawyer found he had someplace else to be rather urgently.
I have nothing to say about his limp.
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Wow. What an asshole. Sorry, but there’s no other word. No one in our society will take blame for their actions.
Good for you.
But, but Obama just said we must take responsibility.
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