Posted on 12/10/2002 9:29:26 PM PST by nicollo
Maryland State Attorney Faces Drunk Driving Charges Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2002 - 6:45 PM EST.
(Rockville) -- A Montgomery County prosecutor is facing drunk driving charges.
Authorities say Deputy State's Attorney Katherine Winfree was stopped shortly before midnight Saturday night on Fernwood Road in Bethesda, about half-a-mile from her home. She was driving her county car at the time, which authorities say had a flat tire.
Winfree was charged with DUI and operating an unsafe vehicle.
The former federal prosecutor has handled some high-profile cases. Last year she won a conviction against Robert Paul Lucas in the murder of Monsignor Thomas Wells.
As for Winfree's case, it's been referred to the Frederick County prosecutor's office to avoid any conflict of interest. She remains on the job in Montgomery, where a spokesman for State's Attorney Douglas Gansler says Winfree is presumed innocent, just like any other defendant.
(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
This story is especially fun, as it happened down the street. How in the hell did anyone get pulled over on Fernwood, I can't imagine. You gotta try to get pulled over on that road.
She was driving on a flat. That's good effort.
Good one.
Katherine Winfree was appointed Principal Deputy State's Attorney in January 1999. Ms. Winfree graduated from the College of William and Mary and the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Ms. Winfree served in the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice from 1976 to 1980. In 1980, she was appointed as an Assistant United State's Attorney for the District of Columbia where she served in the Appellate, Misdemeanor and Felony Trial, Economic Crimes, Special Prosecution, Chronic Offender and Homicide Sections. She also served as Chief of the Misdemeanor Trial, Economic Crimes, and Public Corruption Section. During her tenure as a federal prosecutor, Ms. Winfree was the recipient of the Harold Sullivan Award honoring her as the top prosecutor from among 300 other Assistant United States Attorneys in the District of Columbia. Ms. Winfree has prosecuted many high profile cases during her illustrious career. Among her numerous successful prosecutions, Ms. Winfree is credited with obtaining 19 convictions and $3 million in forfeitures in the "Money Magic" investigation -- a case which involved a complex FBI undercover operation designed to thwart an illegal money laundering scheme involving automobile dealerships and drug kingpins. Recently, she successfully tried State v. Robert Lucas, who murdered Monsignor Thomas Wells, in the rectory of Mother Seton Catholic Church in Germantown.
From the way this sounds, it seems she ruined her own career.
Well, as long as you're there, get to work busting few careers and reputations. The night is young!
(Me, I'm about to crash. Flat tire and all.)
Something like that. When you have been entrusted to a job that can destroy lives you must be judged by a different standard.
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