23-year-old Cary Griffin, who was charged with four counts of vehicular assault and accused of drunk driving following an accident that injured six pedestrians in Fremont, pleaded not guilty to all four counts on Tuesday.
Griffin faces 33 months to 43 months in prison if he is convicted.
Court documents allege that Griffin drove half a block before stopping and walking back to the accident and that his blood alcohol level was nearly 0.19, more than double the limit. According to court papers, the pedestrians “were attempting to get an intoxicated friend into a Land Rover for a ride back to the woman’s home.”
Griffin’s lawyer said in court that his client has no prior criminal record and he did stay at the scene to help the injured.
14 responses so far ↓
1 Jad // Dec 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm
I can drunkenly plow into a crowd and get a max 3.5 yr? Interesting…
2 LibsRule // Dec 30, 2011 at 1:14 am
Lucky for him, Seattle doesn’t take DUI seriously. I bet he walks with a suspended sentence or wosre case less than 3 months in jail..
3 WTF // Dec 30, 2011 at 1:23 pm
How many drunk people does it take to stand in the middle of the road to help another drunk person get into a car?
And, where the fuck are the cops in Fremont on a Friday/Saturday night? Oh, that’s right…they are writing parking tickets. God forbid any of that parking ticket revenue should go to having cops keeps order in the city when all the bars dump people out into the streets at 1:45am.
4 fremontres // Dec 30, 2011 at 2:33 pm
You can’t blame the cops…they can’t be every where…checking every driver to see if they are drunk..the driver is solely responsible. I seriously doubt that seattle cops are issuing parking tickets at 1:45 in the morning…they have parking enforcement that does that…specific people to enforce the parking rules. You can’t blame the cops for the people injured by the drunk driver. that’s fucking stupid.
5 Ken // Jan 1, 2012 at 8:26 am
“I can drunkenly plow into a crowd and get a max 3.5 yr?”
Hell, you can beat a Tuba player to death in this town and get less than a year.
6 WTF // Jan 3, 2012 at 11:34 pm
I certainly can blame SPD when drunk people shoot off guns and stab people in Fremont and they only presence they’ve had all night is writing tickets.
7 Ann // Jan 4, 2012 at 7:53 am
Are the bartenders in Seattle not held responsible for allowing intoxicated customers to keep drinking? Serious question. I’ve been through server training in another state where we were told that someone who continued to serve a customer who was clearly impaired incurred liability.
8 Mike // Jan 5, 2012 at 11:59 am
I’m not sure that the bar tenders aren’t being held responsible. It seems that this article doesn’t address the issue but I assume that there is an action being taken.
9 Meg // Jan 8, 2012 at 2:26 pm
I understand the frustration but parking ticket writing cops and cop cops are not interchangable.
10 WTF // Jan 9, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Well all the money that the ticket writing cops bring in should go to getting more cop cops out on the streets. Law enforcement in this city is a joke.
11 Sara J // Jan 9, 2012 at 3:55 pm
If someone who was injured sues the driver (highly likely, IMO), their attorney will probably look at suing the bar and/or bartender the driver came from also.
12 MAir // Jan 10, 2012 at 3:56 am
Blaming the bar for overserving is rediculous! In this country we are increasing the idea that it is someone elses fault that we drank too much, ate too much, made too many kids and smoked too much. I hope there will be a time when, as a society, we become more responsible for our own actions.
Reality is that this comes down to insurance companies and their lawyers.
13 Impetuous // Jan 13, 2012 at 6:03 pm
I agree with MAir. It is ludicrous to blame a bar for an individual’s mistake. Do people not take cabs and public transportation? Should bars quiz everyone and ask to see their keys and inquire as to their personal choices for transportation? What happened to personal responsibility? The only person to blame is the driver who is at fault.
14 David // Jan 18, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Sue the bar? The bartender? I’m sure it will happen, which is pathetic and sad.
Unfortunately, we have become a nation that litigates and legislates rather than assuming personal responsibility.
We don’t know if the man drank at home, appeared intoxicated at the alleged bar, or even if he was drinking and driving.
And to the issue of a law enforcement presence in Fremont, I say: if someone is shooting or stabbing at you, return fire. Lack of a policeman is the least of your worries.
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